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.
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