Meaning of Barbecue | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
   countable, uncountable
2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
   countable, uncountable
4. A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
   countable, dated, uncountable
5. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
   countable, uncountable
6. A framework of sticks.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We cooked our food on the barbecue.”

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

“She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.”

“Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.”

“1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90, We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.”

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