Kebab

Quick meaning: Kebab is a noun meaning (British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

Meaning

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

More Meanings

1. (US) A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
2. A restaurant that sells kebabs
3. (chemistry) The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
4. (graphical user interface) A menu icon of three vertical dots.
5. (Australia) A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
6. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
7. (slang, vulgar, UK) The vulva.

Example Sentences

Let's go to the kebab after the club.

I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.

A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.

Word Forms

• kebabs
• kebap
• kebob
• kebabbing
• kebabbed

Synonyms for kebab

Depending on context, synonyms include run through, spear, chef, chib, ching, chive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kabob, shish, skewers, kabab, kebap, qabab.

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