Meanings
plural barbeques
- 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 1521 more example
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
present singular third person barbeques · participle present barbequing · participle present barbequeing · participle past barbequed · past barbequed
- 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
nouna cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
nouna rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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