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bar⋅be⋅cue
[bahr-bi-kyoo] 
noun, verb, -cued, -cu⋅ing.–noun
| 1. | pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth, esp. 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. |
–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. |
Also, barbeque, bar-b-que.
Origin:
1655–65; < Sp barbacoa < Arawak (perh. Taino) barbacoa a raised frame of sticks
1655–65; < Sp barbacoa < Arawak (perh. Taino) barbacoa a raised frame of sticks
Related forms:
bar⋅be⋅cu⋅er, noun
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| bar·be·cue (bär'bĭ-kyōō') n.
To roast, broil, or grill (meat or seafood) over live coals or an open fire, often basting with a seasoned sauce. [American Spanish barbacoa, of Taino origin.] |
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Barbecue
Bar"be*cue\ (b[aum]"b[-e]*k[=u]), n. [In the language of Indians of Guiana, a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried.]1. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. 2. A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole. 3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.Barbecue
Bar"be*cue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barbecued; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbecuing.]1. To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. --Stedman. 2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. --Pope.
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Language Translation for : barbecue
Spanish:
barbacoa,
German:
der Bratrost,
Japanese:
バーベキューの炉
barbecue
1657, 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 1931.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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