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Barbecue

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Noun

1. barbecue, barbeque

meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

2. barbecue, barbeque

a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

3. barbecue, barbeque

a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

Verb

4. barbecue, barbeque, cook out

cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

Example Sentences:
'let's barbecue that meat'
'We cooked out in the forest'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Barbecue

see synonyms of barbecue
noun
1. 
a meal cooked out of doors over an open fire
2. 
an outdoor party or picnic at which barbecued food is served
3. 
a grill or fireplace used in barbecuing
4. 
the food so cooked
verb -cues, -cuing or -cued (transitive)
5. 
to cook (meat, fish, etc) on a grill, usually over charcoal and often with a highly seasoned sauce
6. 
to cook (meat, fish, etc) in a highly seasoned sauce

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Barbecue

see synonyms of barbecue
noun
1.  Obsolete
a raised framework for smoking, drying, or broiling meat
2. 
a hog, steer, etc. broiled or roasted whole over an open fire, sometimes in an open pit
3. 
a. 
any meat broiled over an open fire
b. 
any meat prepared and broiled with a barbecue sauce
4.  US
a party or picnic at which such meat is served
5. 
a restaurant that specializes in barbecuing
6. 
a. 
an outdoor structure for cooking or, esp., roasting over an open fire
b. 
a portable outdoor grill
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈbarbeˌcued or ˈbarbeˌcuing
7. 
to prepare (meat) outdoors by roasting on a spit or broiling on a grill, usually over a charcoal fire
8. 
to broil or cook (meat) with a highly seasoned sauce (barbecue sauce) containing vinegar, tomatoes, spices, etc.
adjective
9. 
of or for a barbecue
10. 
prepared by barbecuing
barbecue ribs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Barbecue

see synonyms of barbecue
n.
1. A grill, pit, or outdoor fireplace for roasting meat.
2.
a. A whole animal carcass or section thereof roasted or broiled over an open fire or on a spit.
b. A social gathering, usually held outdoors, at which food is cooked over an open flame.
3. Meat or seafood cooked in or served with barbecue sauce.
tr.v. bar·be·cued, bar·be·cu·ing, bar·be·cues
To roast, broil, or grill (meat or seafood) over live coals or an open fire, often basting with a seasoned sauce.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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