barbecue, barbeque
(noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
barbecue, barbeque
(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
barbecue, barbeque
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce
barbeque, barbecue, cook out
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; “let’s barbecue that meat”; “We cooked out in the forest”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
Coordinate terms: grill, boucan
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.
• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout
barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing, simple past and past participle barbecued)
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
To grill.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"be*cue, n. Etym: [In the language of Indians of Guiana, a frame on which all kinds of flesh and fish are roasted or smoke-dried.]
1. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
2. A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
3. A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
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. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.
2. To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 April 2025
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
