kebab

plural kebabs · alternative kabaab · alternative kabob · alternative kebap · alternative kabab · alternative kebob

1. A dish usually made of cut meat roasted on a skewer or spit, especially one based on Middle Eastern or South Asian cuisine.
   1. AustraliaUKA hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.
   2. USA shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
   3. IndiaA dish made from shaped minced meat, usually grilled on a skewer but sometimes formed into a patty and fried or baked.

      A kebab that is also popular in Iran and Afghanistan is shammi kebab - a disk-shaped patty resembling a hamburger made of spiced ground meat and chickpeas beaten until they are light and airy and lightly sautéed in a pan.

      2013 September 9, Bruce Kraig, Colleen Taylor Sen, Street Food around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 172

2. A restaurant that sells kebabs

   Let's go to the kebab after the club.

3. chemistryThe outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
4. ethnicoffensiveslangslurA Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
5. UKslangvulgarThe vulva.
6. computingA menu icon of three vertical dots.

present singular third person kebabs · participle present kebabbing · participle past kebabbed · past kebabbed · alternative kabaab · alternative kabob · alternative kebap · alternative kabab · alternative kebob

1. transitiveTo roast in the style of a kebab.
2. slangtransitiveTo stab or skewer.

   I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.

   2003, Julian Roup, A Fisherman in the Saddle, page 32

   1 more example

   A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 343

   Synonyms: run through, spear, chef, chib, ching, chive, enthrill, foin