grillout

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noun

A gathering for a meal which is grilled outdoors; a cookout or barbecue.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

noungrillout (plural grillouts)

plural grillouts

  1. A gathering for a meal which is grilled outdoors; a cookout or barbecue.

    Small craft slide in the ramps next to exceptionally pretty grillout and lunch spots.

    1990, Joan Lundquist Scalpone, Tampa to Big Bend Florida : 150 day trips, page 64
    2 more examples

    Everybody whoops and cheers. Over the fence, the Madigans, who are having a family grillout, start to clap, too.

    2011, Sarah Bennett-Wealer, Rival, page 29

    Who knows? Maybe in a year or two, your family and mine can laugh all this off over a Summer grillout.

    2013, Steven A. J. Orobona, Hypolia: Book One of the Keran Chronicles, page 327

Origin

  1. Englishgrill
  2. Old Englishūt
  3. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  4. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  5. Proto-Germanic*ūtai
  6. Proto-West Germanic*ūtē
  7. Old Englishūte
  8. Middle Englishoute
  9. Englishout
  10. Englishgrillout

From grill + out.

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APA

grillout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grillout

MLA

“grillout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grillout. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grillout,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grillout.

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