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Verb: roast  rowst
  1. Cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
    "roast the turkey"
     
  2. Subject to laughter or ridicule
    "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
    - ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
Noun: roast  rowst
  1. A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
    - joint
     
  2. Negative criticism
    - knock
Adjective: roast  rowst
  1. (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
    - roasted

Derived forms: roasts, roasted, roasting

See also: cooked, roaster, roasting

Type of: bemock, cook, criticism, critique, cut, cut of meat, mock

Encyclopedia: Roast