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Verb: barbecue  'baa(r)-bu`kyoo
  1. Cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
    "let's barbecue that meat"
    - barbeque, cook out [N. Amer]
Noun: barbecue  'baa(r)-bu`kyoo
  1. Meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce
    - barbeque
     
  2. A cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
    - barbeque, BBQ [Brit], barbie [Brit]
     
  3. A rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
    - barbeque, braaistand [S.Africa]

Derived forms: barbecued, barbecuing, barbecues

Type of: cookout [N. Amer], dish, grill, rack

Encyclopedia: Barbecue Barbecue, North Carolina