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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of barbecue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
- n. a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
- v. cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
- n. meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce
Etymologies
- Suggested by the common abbreviation BBQ. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And this past week, the company announced that on November 2nd, the McRib is coming back nationwide - the pork patty shaped like a rib and slathered in barbeque sauce and onions.”
“All of a sudden all these people interested in barbeque that you had never predicted are following you and talking to you and checking out your blog.”
“Better types of wood (such as mesquite) will cost more, however these are usually used in barbeque situations.”
“Steampunk Barbeque Dreadnought: 1. 5HP International Harvester Steam Tractor, with built in barbeque grill (complete with rotisserie), a built in steam powered ice cream maker, and hot dog launching air cannon run off a compressor, also powered by the steam engine. eBay Link.”
“Favorite dish: two tire irons, with a side of cabbage and a small nest of baby eagles in barbeque sauce.”
“But then, the dotted line on that deal had been signed long ago, in barbeque sauce if not in blood.”
“Leaving aside her probable misuse of the word barbeque I suspect she means grill I don't know if I'm in a rut or not.”
“Well, with due respect for my Texan and Tennessean amigos here, any true Alabama boy knows that a barbeque is by definition a pulled pork sandwich made in the vicinity of Bumin'ham in a shack and served with cold beer.”
“Like Pennsylvania or Massachusetts. or any of those other places that are hard to spell where they dont know what barbeque is and drive badly.”
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“A deep-pit barbeque is held to give thanks for the sustenance provided by their animals.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘barbeque’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Summer Words
A list of words that are somewhat related to summer.
carnival, marshmallow, campfire, beach, ocean, camp, fun, picnic, friends, vacation, sun, warm and 23 more...
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We Be Grillin'
Barbecue terms.
barbecue, barbeque, BBQ, cookout, grill, grilly, sausage sizzle, pig-pickin's, ribfest, brazier, buccan, barbie and 19 more...
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Word Box 2
barbeque, catastrophe, sad, silhouette, subtle, schnitzel, lahar, portfolio, olio, sockdolager, palace, cheap and 15 more...
Tweets
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reesetee They must have attended one of my family's picnics. Jun 15, 2010
chained_bear "...Men and women both drank at the popular outdoor meal called a barbeque, 'an entertainment' that, as one traveler describes, 'generally ends in intoxication.'"
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 18 Jun 9, 2010