barbecue
IPA: bˈɑrbɪkju
noun
- A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- 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.
- (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
verb
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- To grill.
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Examples of "barbecue" in Sentences
- At the foot of the tower is a barbecue hut.
- The ingredient in the barbecue tradition was the meat.
- He remembers the barbecue, which was free, and the music.
- As for the barbecue lunch and the kid are the traditional.
- The honey barbecue flavor transitioned over to the twists.
- All the girls get to meet the parents during the barbecue.
- By shaking the paper bag the fries get a barbecue seasoning.
- The house holds a barbecue for the friends of the participants.
- Everyone gathers for the barbecue and Maurice prepares the food.
- Actopan is known as the city of the convent and the land of the barbecue.
- Because for some, using the term barbecue to refer to grilled things is just so freaking incorrect.
- But as the camera pulls back, the viewer sees that the barbecue is actually taking place on a freeway.
- Going to my family's house in nearby Mentone for a barbecue is always one of the highlights of my trip.
- At each of these outdoor cookouts, the term barbecue is being stretched in culinary directions that I do not condone.
- The OED also says that the English word barbecue came from the Spanish word barbacoa which came from the Taino word for a raised platform.
- I believe that one of the candidates for the Senate there has made it part of his platform. the word barbecue comes from the Spanish word barbacoa which in turns comes from the Arawak
- The term barbecue comes via the Spanish barbacoa from the West Indies, and a Taino word that meant a framework of green sticks suspended on corner posts, on which meat, fish, and other foods were laid and cooked in the open over fire and coals.
- I've recently spent time in several of the nation's major barbecue regions, and I've come to the conclusion that the term "barbecue" is misleading, a misnomer that implies that these widely disparate food items are in some essential way the same thing.