Meaning of roast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
2. To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance
3. A meal consisting of roast foods.
4. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc
5. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
6. To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
7. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
8. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn
9. To admonish someone vigorously
10. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
11. A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
    Canada, US
12. A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonym: joint”

“Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.”

“Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.”

“Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.”

““He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.””

“On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.”

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