Shish kebab

//ˈʃɪʃkəbɑb// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables wordnet
  3. 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…"

Etymology

From Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş (“skewer”) + kebap (“kebab”).

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