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roast

  [rohst]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bake (meat or other food) uncovered, esp. in an oven.
2. to cook (meat or other food) by direct exposure to dry heat, as on a spit.
3. to brown, dry, or parch by exposure to heat, as coffee beans.
4. to cook or heat by embedding in hot coals, embers, etc.: to roast chestnuts.
5. to heat excessively: The summer sun has been roasting the entire countryside.
6. Metallurgy. to heat (ore or the like) in air in order to oxidize it.
7. to warm at a hot fire: She roasted her hands over the fire.
8. Informal. to ridicule or criticize severely or mercilessly.
9. to honor with or subject to a roast: Friends roasted the star at a charity dinner.
–verb (used without object)
10. to roast meat or other food.
11. to undergo the process of becoming roasted.
–noun
12. roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
13. a piece of meat for roasting.
14. something that is roasted.
15. the act or process of roasting.
16. Informal. severe criticism.
17. a facetious ceremonial tribute, usually concluding a banquet, in which the guest of honor is both praised and good-naturedly insulted in a succession of speeches by friends and acquaintances.
18. an outdoor get-together, as a picnic or barbecue, at which food is roasted and eaten: a weenie roast.
–adjective
19. roasted: roast beef.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME rosten (v.) < OF rostir < Gmc; cf. D roosten, G rösten

Related forms:
roast⋅a⋅ble, adjective
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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Slang Dictionary
roast

  1. tv.
    to put on an entertaining program, usually with a dinner, where the guest of honor is teased and insulted. : They roasted Dave when he retired.
  2. n.
    an entertaining program where the guest of honor is insulted all in fun. : It was a wonderful roast. The guest of honor was pleased with the quality of the insults.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

roast  (v.)
1297, from O.Fr. rostir, from Frank. *hraustjan (cf. O.H.G. rosten, M.Du. roosten "to roast"), from the same source as roster (q.v.). The meaning "make fun of in an affectionate way" is from 1710. The noun is attested from c.1330. Roast beef first recorded 1635.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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