tandoori

1. not comparableCooked in a tandoor.

plural tandooris

1. A dish that was cooked in a tandoor.
2. UKinformalA curry meal.

   'Let's go down the Shahbag for a tandoori!'

   2013 February 4, Jacky Hyams, White Boots & Miniskirts - A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties: The follow up to Bombsites and Lollipops, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN

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   Call me when you get in and invite me out for a tandoori — Oh, and by the way, Jude e-mailed to say she's still having a ball with Marcus and everything's as sweet as a nut.

   2004 10, Terence Strong, Cold Monday, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 135

   Having a relaxing stress-free pint with my fiancée, going for a tandoori afterwards and hoping that she'll come back to my place for B and B, or who knows, maybe even invite me to hers.'

   2010 January 7, Quintin Jardine, Gallery Whispers (Bob Skinner series, Book 9): A gritty Edinburgh crime thriller, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 64

3. UKinformalAn Indian restaurant, especially one with a tandoor.

   A sandwich at three, and dinner out at a tandoori this evening.

   2014 September 11, Stanley Middleton, An After-Dinner’s Sleep, Random House, →ISBN

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   He's done those lads at a tandoori when they started giving him grief.

   1991 03, Punch

   Now, of course, there is a tandoori in every high street (and a balti and a Thai takeaway as well); proving, if proof were needed, that people's tastes even in conservative Britain are nothing like so conservative as is often supposed.

   2004 August 26, Colin Tudge, So Shall We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food - and How to Fix it, Penguin UK, →ISBN