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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A cooking device equipped with a rotating spit on which meat or other food is roasted.
  2. n. A shop or restaurant where meats are roasted to order.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cooking device on which food is roasted on a rotating spit
  2. n. a shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats
  2. n. an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns

Etymologies

  1. French rôtisserie, from Old French rostisserie, from rostir, to roast, of Germanic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Warner should be a great pickup in rotisserie leagues, especially since he's facing a San Diego team that can be exploited in the air.”

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  • “Latin American rotisserie chicken is also becoming more popular, as young people in particular look for 'comfort food with a twist', that they also perceive to be healthy.”

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  • “The first I call the rotisserie metaphor: one doesn't just do poorly on an exam: he or she (in vaguely increasing degrees of heat) gets smoked, lit, torched, burned, toasted, fried, baked, roasted, or sizzled.”

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  • “Everything on the menu was good, and inexpensive, but I zeroed in on their specialty, pollos a la brasa, aka rotisserie chicken.”

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  • “They completely rebuilt it, what's called a rotisserie rebuild, from the ground up, with noted hot rod designer Chip Foose being the design chief of it.”

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  • “We used a wood burning oven and a rotisserie which is where the inspiration for the pizza we make at Otto came from.”

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  • “In addition, Suzuki will showcase a Road Race Motorsports Kizashi with Road Race's signature handling and performance mods; a "rotisserie" display showcasing the Kizashi's underbody performance hardware; a body-in-white Kizashi display showing the vehicle's world-class construction; and an Equator concept truck, with off-road upgrades provided by ICON Vehicle Dynamics and the Corona Cartel.”

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  • “The car's body is on the shop's "rotisserie," or rack, which can rotate 360 degrees and stop at any angle.”

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  • “The grilled and rotisserie chicken have both reduced in price, I have no idea why, but it was a nice surprise.”

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  • “In my area, chicken is very common -- grilled, rotisserie, con mole, but not fried.”

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