shashlyk

plural shashlyks · plural shashlyki

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of shashlik.

   I heard 1 million Georgians left Georgia during past 8 years, so it can't be good. Well at least you can buy good shashlyki in Moscow :)

   1999 August 27, Dimitry Volshebnik, “Editor Chosed^([sic]) a strange pick?”, in soc.culture.russian (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Jun 2025

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   My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.

   1952, Cothburn O’Neal, chapter 1, in Master of the World (Avon; N158), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1967, →OCLC, book 1, page 17

   The Bakaldin Festival rotates between several nearby Evenki villages in late May or early June, with traditional song, dance, reindeer rides and plenty of reindeer shashlyki and other native delicacies.

   2012, Simon Richmond et al., “Tynda”, in Russia, 6th edition, Footscray, Vic.; Oakland, Calif.; London: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 589, column 2

   Third, the garage is also a place for spending leisure time, barbecuing (making shashlyki), drinking, socialising and maintaining relationships with other men.

   2024, Alexandrina Vanke, “In the garage”, in The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, part II (Ways of life), chapter 3 (A gendered sense of place: intersectional inequalities in urban space)