barbecue
pronunciation
How to pronounce barbecue in British English:
UK [ˈbɑːbɪkjuː]
How to pronounce barbecue in American English:
US [ˈbɑːrbɪkjuː]
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- Noun:
- meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce
- a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
- a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
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- Verb:
- cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
Word Origin
- barbecue
- barbecue: [17] Barbecue originated in the language of the now extinct Taino people of the West Indies. It first emerges in the Haitian creole term barbacoa, which meant simply ‘wooden framework’ (used for other purposes than roasting meat – for example, as a bed). American Spanish adopted the word, and passed it on to English. Compare BUCCANEER.
- barbecue (n.)
- 1650s, "framework for grilling meat, fish, etc.," from American Spanish barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa "framework of sticks," the raised wooden structure the Indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. Sense of "outdoor meal of roasted meat or fish as a social entertainment" is from 1733; modern popular noun sense of "grill for cooking over an open fire" is from 1931.
- barbecue (v.)
- 1660s, from barbecue (n.). Related: Barbecued; barbecuing.
Example
- 1. The ball bounces next to the barbecue .
- 2. In some sense , barbecue has always been a competitive sport .
- 3. Simply counting the ways north carolinians barbecue pork could fill a whole book .
- 4. There are barbecue nights and pool tables .
- 5. Other countries barbecue in their own style .