Barbecue

Quick meaning: Barbecue is a noun meaning A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

Meaning

A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

More Meanings

1. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
2. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To grill.
5. Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
6. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
7. (obsolete) A framework of sticks.

Example Sentences

We cooked our food on the barbecue.

She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.

We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"

Word Forms

• barbecues
• barbeque
• barbie
• barbecuing
• barbecueing
• barbecued

Synonyms for barbecue

Depending on context, synonyms include braai, buccan, cookout.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bbq, barbeque, cookout, barbie, picnic, picnicking.

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