barbeque
barbecue
or bar·be·que, bar-b-que
- pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce.
- a framework, as a grill or a spit, or a fireplace for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire.
- a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole.
- a meal, usually in the open air and often as a political or social gathering, at which meats are roasted over an open hearth or pit.
- to broil or roast whole or in large pieces over an open fire, on a spit or grill, often seasoning with vinegar, spices, salt, and pepper.
- to cook (sliced or diced meat or fish) in a highly seasoned sauce.
- to cook by barbecuing or to entertain at a barbecue: If the weather's nice, we'll barbecue in the backyard.
Origin of barbecue
Examples from the Web for barbeque
Contemporary Examples of barbeque
The place where jazz and barbeque and mob bosses and the blues flourished.
Finally, it is summer and one other wine to enjoy outside around the barbeque would be the Tobin James Sauvignon Blanc.
On the Fourth of July, a barbeque was held with Coca-Cola and grilled sausages and partygoers sang the American national anthem.
She wrote that to a group of her closest aides, presumably in preparation for a barbeque in the summer of 2008.
I love to barbeque and his recipes are simple and easy to make.
Historical Examples of barbeque
Next weekend my mom and dad are going to Saturn for a barbeque.
FreeChildrenStories.com CollectionDaniel Errico
And, separated by a hedge, a brown tent with a barbeque pit before it, smoke rising in a rigid ribbon from the chimney.
ElegyCharles Beaumont
The pretty waitress lighted a gas-heater with a barbeque lighter, took our orders and went inside.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow
barbecue
- 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
- 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
Word Origin for barbecue
Word Origin and History for barbeque
barbecue
1660s, from barbecue (n.). Related: Barbecued; barbecuing.
barbecue
1650s, "framework for grilling meat, fish, etc.," from American Spanish barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa "framework of sticks," the raised wooden structure the Indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. Sense of "outdoor meal of roasted meat or fish as a social entertainment" is from 1733; modern popular noun sense of "grill for cooking over an open fire" is from 1931.