barbecue
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bɪˌkyu noun
1.
pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce.
2.
a framework, as a grill or a spit, or a fireplace for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire.
3.
a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole.
4.
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.
verb (used with object)
5.
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.
6.
to cook (sliced or diced meat or fish) in a highly seasoned sauce.
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verb (used without object)
7.
to cook by barbecuing or to entertain at a barbecue: If the weather's nice, we'll barbecue in the backyard.
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| —n | |
| 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 |
| —vb , -cues, -cuing, -cued | |
| 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 |
| [C17: from American Spanish barbacoa, probably from Taino: frame made of sticks] | |
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Word Origin & History
barbecue
1650s, from Amer.Sp. barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa "framework of sticks," the raised wooden structure the Indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally "meal of roasted meat or fish," modern popular noun sense of "grill for cooking over an open fire" is from 1931.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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barbecue
an outdoor meal, usually a form of social entertainment, at which meats, fish, or fowl, along with vegetables, are roasted over a wood or charcoal fire. The term also denotes the grill or stone-lined pit for cooking such a meal, or the food itself, particularly the strips of meat. The word "barbecue" came into English via the Spanish, who adopted the term from the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, to whom the barbacoa was a grating of green wood upon which strips of meat were placed to cook or to dry over a slow fire
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Example sentences
If he doesn't, pull out the barbecue grill to celebrate an early spring.
We cooked in a microwave and used a camp stove or our gas barbecue.
Well, the flavor is worlds better than molded pork product swimming in barbecue sauce, but you get the idea.
It is officially barbecue season or, for those to whom barbecue means burying a pig in a hole in the ground, grill season.
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