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Noun: cookout  'kūk`awt
Usage: N. Amer
  1. An informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors
Verb: cook out  kūk awt
Usage: N. Amer
  1. Cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
    "We cooked out in the forest"
    - barbeque, barbecue

Derived forms: cooked out, cooking out, cooks out, cookouts

Type of: grill, picnic

Encyclopedia: Cookout