barbecue

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
2. (countable, uncountable) A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
3. (countable, uncountable) Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
4. (countable, dated, uncountable) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. (countable, uncountable) A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A framework of sticks.

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. (intransitive, transitive) To grill.
3. (derogatory, slang, transitive) To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

Synonyms

barbeque

grill

roast

bake

cook out

broiler

BBQ

sear

braai

toast

barbie

rotisserie

scorch

seduce

singe

toaster oven

Bar-B-Q

oven broil

brazier

broil

burn

cook

🧑‍🍳

cookout

griddle

gridiron

grille

oven

roaster

Translations

barbacoa

barbecue

barbecue

barbecue

grillen

Grill

parrillada

barbacoa

Barbecue

Grillen

grelhar

σχάρα

churrasco

asar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/

Etymology

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.