spit-roast

present singular third person spit-roasts · participle present spit-roasting · participle past spit-roasted · past spit-roasted · alternative spit roast · alternative spitroast

1. transitiveTo roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).

   That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.

   2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226

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   Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.

   1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127

   Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.

   2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53

2. slangtransitivevulgarlifestyleTo engage in the sexual practice wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.