Shish kebab
/ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A dish made of small pieces of meat, with or without vegetables, which are skewered on a wooden or metal stick and roasted in an oven or over an open fire. countable, uncountable
"“That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”"
- 2 cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables wordnet
- 3 A crystal structure consisting of a central spine (the shish) and disks or lumps growing out from it (the kebab). countable
"The fibrillar crystals, which are known as shish-kebabs, develop when a 0.5% solution of polyethylene in xylene is cooled off at the rate of 1°C per hour with stirring…"
Example
More examples"“That’s terrible,” Mel said. “That’s a terrible thing, Nicky. I guess they’d just lay there and wait until somebody came along and made a shish kebab out of them.”"
Etymology
From Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş (“skewer”) + kebap (“kebab”).