barbeque

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A form of barbecue — A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

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Meanings

nounbarbeque (countable and uncountable, plural barbeques)

plural barbeques

  1. alternativecountableproscribedsometimesuncountableAlternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).

    ‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’

    2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 152
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    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.

    2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28
verbbarbeque (third-person singular simple present barbeques, present participle barbequing or barbequeing, simple past and past participle barbequed)

present singular third person barbeques · participle present barbequing · participle present barbequeing · participle past barbequed · past barbequed

  1. alternativeproscribedsometimesAlternative spelling of barbecue.

    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.

    2013, Kenneth Eade, chapter 22, in An Involuntary Spy, New York, N.Y.: Times Square Publishing, →ISBN, page 92

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmeat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

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nouna cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

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nouna rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

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verbcook outdoors on a barbecue grill

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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