A Topical Dictionary: Search for barbecue

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English

Image:Barbecue.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Marinated beef grilling on a barbecue.

Alternative spellings

Pronunciation

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

Category:Meals

Synonyms

braai (South African English)

Derived terms

Translations

Afrikaans: braai
Finnish:
French: {{t+|fr|barbecue|m}}

Japanese: {{t+|ja|バーベキュー|tr=bābekyu|sc=Jpan}}
Portuguese: churrasqueira
Spanish:

Verb

To cook food on a barbecue; to grill.

Translations

Finnish:

Category:Cooking

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Barbecue \Bar"be*cue\ (b[aum]"b[-e]*k[=u]), n. [In the language
of the (Arawak or Taino) Indians of Guiana, barbacoa a frame
on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or
smoke-dried.]
1. a framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on
top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is
cooked, usually outdoors; -- also called a {barbecue
grill}.
[PJC]

2. A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in
the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue
grill.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
[1913 Webster]

4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole
for a feast.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Barbecue \Bar"be*cue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barbecued; p. pr. &
vb. n. Barbecuing.]
1. To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
[1913 Webster]

They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game
and fish in the smoke. --Stedman.
[1913 Webster]

2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.
[1913 Webster]

Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet barbecue
n 1: meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned
sauce [syn: barbeque]
2: a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire;
especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit [syn:
barbeque]
3: a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually
out of doors [syn: barbeque]
v : cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that
meat"; "We cooked out in the forest" [syn: cook out]

Moby Dictionary
TV dinner , alfresco meal , aspic , bake , baste , blanch , boil ,
boiled meat , bouilli , braise , breakfast , brew , broil , brown ,
brunch , buffet supper , civet , clambake , coddle , coffee break , cook ,
cookout , curry , devil , diner , dinner , do , do to perfection ,
elevenses , fire , fish fry , flesh , forcemeat , fricassee , frizz ,
frizzle , fry , game , griddle , grill , hachis , hash , heat , high tea ,
hot luncheon , jerky , joint , jugged hare , lunch , luncheon , mash ,
meat , meat breakfast , menue viande , mince , oven-bake , pan ,
pan-broil , parboil , pemmican , petit dejeuner , picnic , poach ,
pot roast , prepare , prepare food , roast , sausage meat , saute ,
scallop , scrapple , sear , shirr , simmer , steam , stew , stir-fry ,
supper , tea , tea break , teatime , tiffin , toast , venison , viande ,
wiener roast , wienie roast