"Italian beef" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of \"Italian beef sandwich\", because the sandwiches were made, using beef, by Italian immigrants in Chicago.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Italian beefs",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "Italian beef (plural Italian beefs)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, “Losing Weight The Old-Fashioned Way”, in Ebony, volume 61, number 9, page 77",
          "text": "I changed my eating habits and stopped eating after 6 p.m. I switched from eating Italian beefs, drinking high-calorie mocha lattes and big sodas to drinking lots of water, eating salmon and having oatmeal for breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late, page 261",
          "text": "Chicago's Mr. Beef is one of the best places to enjoy an Italian beef.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, page 24",
          "text": "One evening in the autumn of my freshman year, my appetite casually drifted toward the pleasant thought of an Italian beef. Maybe double-dipped (sopped with gravy), hot and sweet (with giardiniera and peppers).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef on a dense, long Italian-style roll."
      ],
      "id": "en-Italian_beef-en-noun-1PHF~Tgi",
      "links": [
        [
          "sandwich",
          "sandwich"
        ],
        [
          "roast beef",
          "roast beef"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Chicago",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Chicago) A sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef on a dense, long Italian-style roll."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Italian beef"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "Italian beef"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening of \"Italian beef sandwich\", because the sandwiches were made, using beef, by Italian immigrants in Chicago.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Italian beefs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Sandwiches"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, “Losing Weight The Old-Fashioned Way”, in Ebony, volume 61, number 9, page 77",
          "text": "I changed my eating habits and stopped eating after 6 p.m. I switched from eating Italian beefs, drinking high-calorie mocha lattes and big sodas to drinking lots of water, eating salmon and having oatmeal for breakfast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late, page 261",
          "text": "Chicago's Mr. Beef is one of the best places to enjoy an Italian beef.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, page 24",
          "text": "One evening in the autumn of my freshman year, my appetite casually drifted toward the pleasant thought of an Italian beef. Maybe double-dipped (sopped with gravy), hot and sweet (with giardiniera and peppers).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef on a dense, long Italian-style roll."
      ],
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          "roast beef",
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        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Chicago",
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        "(Chicago) A sandwich of thin slices of seasoned roast beef on a dense, long Italian-style roll."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Italian beef"
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  "word": "Italian beef"
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