barbecue

IPA: bˈɑrbɪkju

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.

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

Examples of "barbecue" in Sentences

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.