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barbecue
[ bahr-bi-kyoo ]
noun
- pieces of meat, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted or smoked over fire, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce:
The restaurant serves amazing barbecue.
- a framework, such as a grill or a spit, for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire:
Make sure you clean off the barbecue so it's ready to use when we go camping.
- a meal, usually in the open air and often as a social gathering, at which meats are roasted on a grill or over an open hearth or pit.
- any social gathering centered around food, especially meat, that is cooked over fire using a grill, spit, smoker, or the like:
Our weekend barbecue was lively until it started to rain.
- a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole.
verb (used with object)
- to broil, smoke, or roast (meat, fowl, fish, or the like) whole or in large pieces over an open fire, using a spit, grill, smoker, or the like, often seasoning with vinegar, spices, salt, and pepper:
They barbecued a chicken and some steaks for dinner.
- to cook (sliced or diced meat, fowl, fish, or the like) in a highly seasoned sauce.
verb (used without object)
- to cook over an open fire using an instrument such as a grill, spit, or smoker, or to host a social gathering where food is cooked in this manner:
If the weather's nice, we'll barbecue in the backyard.
barbecue
/ ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː /
noun
- a meal cooked out of doors over an open fire
- an outdoor party or picnic at which barbecued food is served
- a grill or fireplace used in barbecuing
- the food so cooked
verb
- to cook (meat, fish, etc) on a grill, usually over charcoal and often with a highly seasoned sauce
- to cook (meat, fish, etc) in a highly seasoned sauce
Other Words From
- bar·be·cu·er noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of barbecue1
Word History and Origins
Origin of barbecue1
Example Sentences
Local government saw it as a opportunity to recreate the instant fame that the town of Zibo enjoyed last year because of its barbecues.
People ate from a buffet from The Park’s Finest, the delicious Filipino barbecue spot run by a friend of hers.
Other measures include bans on engine-powered rickshaws and vendors that barbecue without filters.
Between them, on Tuesday alone the royal couple visited the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, a food bank, a social housing project, a literacy initiative and a community barbecue.
Among about a dozen items they mentioned, four—golf, outdoor barbecue, pet care and arts and crafts—received fewer positive responses from veterans than hotel.
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