grill

plural grills · plural grillz · alternative grille

1. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
2. The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.

   The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

3. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
4. UKA cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat from above and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
5. USA cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat from below and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.

   I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.

6. Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.

   a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills

7. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

   These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.

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   It was a small grill called Pete's, dark and friendly.

   1954, Ian Fleming, “Midnight Among The Worms”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 153

   Everyone's meeting at the new grill in town! And everyone's having a real good time! They're drinking frozen blue Margaritas. Munching on Cajun popcorn shrimp. Laughing with old friends and getting to know new ones.

   1986, New York, volume 19, part 5, page 385

8. colloquialA type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.

   Nella wished him luck and started to walk away, still unsure if that glint in his mouth was a grill or just a few golden teeth.

   2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 213

   Synonyms: fronts, golds

9. broadlycolloquialThe front teeth regarded collectively.
10. InternetdeliberatehumorousmisspellingDeliberate misspelling of girl.

    r u a grill?

present singular third person grills · participle present grilling · participle past grilled · past grilled · alternative grille

1. transitiveTo cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.

   Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?

   Synonyms: cook, do

2. AustraliaNew ZealandUKtransitiveTo cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.

   Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139

3. colloquialtransitiveTo interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

   The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.

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   In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.

   2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, in CNN

   The white cop grilled me. He was tall, but had a stomach like a pregnant woman. The other two were brothers, and they looked like they just didn't wanna be standing there.

   2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 148

4. informalintransitiveTo feel very hot; to swelter.

   He had grilled in the heat, sweated in the rains, and shivered with fever under the rude thatch roof; […]

   1898, Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work

5. transitiveTo stamp or mark with a grill.
6. New York CityTo stare at.

present singular third person grills · participle present grilling · participle past grilled · past grilled · alternative Scotland girl

1. ScotlandUSobsoletetransitiveTo make angry; provoke; offend, incite.

   Synonyms: instigate, affront, aggravate, anger, antagonize, awrath, burn up, cheese off

2. ScotlandobsoletetransitiveTo terrify; make tremble.

   Synonyms: scare, alarm, affright, appall, dismay, fray, frighten, give someone the shits

3. ScotlandintransitiveobsoleteTo tremble; shiver.

   Synonyms: palpitate, quiver, shudder

4. Northern EnglandScotlandintransitiveobsoleteTo snarl; snap.

comparative griller · comparative more grill · superlative grillest · superlative most grill

1. obsoleteHarsh, rough, severe; cruel.

plural grills

1. obsoleteuncountableusuallyHarm.