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beef

2 verb
     
beef2 [intransitive]
informal to complain a lot
beef about
They're always beefing about something.

beef something ↔ up

phrasal verb
to improve something or make it more interesting, more important etc:
a beefed-up news story
We need to beef the campaign up.
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