barbecue

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing…

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

   • We cooked our food on the barbecue.
2. 2

   A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   • We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
3. 3

   Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked…

   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.

   • She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
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   1. 4

      A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

   2. 5

      A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

      • Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
   3. 6

      A framework of sticks.

   4. 7

      To cook food on a barbecue

      To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

   5. 8

      To grill.

   6. 9

      To kill or destroy using high heat or fire

      To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

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

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