Barbeque

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”). alt-of, alternative, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable

    "She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill."

  2. 2
    a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors wordnet
  3. 3
    a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit wordnet
  4. 4
    meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of barbecue. alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes

    "When they arrived, Masha and Natasha joined the other girls in the kitchen, and Pasha scurried Seth out into the great outdoors with the men to barbeque shashliki, a delicious Russian marinated meat."

  2. 2
    cook outdoors on a barbecue grill wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
barbecuebarbecuebarbecuecook out

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"I like my chicken wings with barbeque sauce."

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