1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BEEF [v]
to alarm, as They have cryed Beef upon us; they have discovered, us and are in Pursuit of us.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Beef in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).