cattle

1. (derogatory, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.Examples: ""I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle," the Prison Governor said, relieved now."Synonyms: beef, Bos, bovine, cattlebeast, cattlehead, neat, kine, sheeplederogatoryfigurativelypluralplural-normally

2. (obsolete, English law, sometimes countable, plural cattles) chattelExamples: "goods and cattle"; "That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles, and shall suffer imprisonment during his life."; "1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased, […]"Englishcountableobsoletepluralplural-normallysometimes

3. (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.Examples: "The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall-natives, and sheep-fat and cattle-steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women."; "“But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I. “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”"; "Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do."pluralplural-normallyrareuncountable