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noun

Barbecue n.

A framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; also called a barbecue grill.

A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

verb

Barbecue v. t. (past & past part. barbecued; pres. part. barbecuing)

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. "They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke."

To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. "Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued."

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Etymology of 'Barbecue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barbecue" Quotes from Famous Books

... "A political barbecue, I believe," responded Eugenia indifferently as she knotted the cord of her flannel dressing-gown. She yawned and threw herself into a chair. "I wonder why everybody spoils Dudley so," she added. "Even I do it. I am sitting up for him ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... have a plea o' self-defense ter cla'r themselves on, but David tuck too good keer o' hisself ter git ketched that a-way, an' he hurt one o' the bullies so bad thet he niver quite got over hit. He an' Kunnel Pennington leveled ther weepons on each other at a barbecue near London last Fall, but the bystanders interfered, an' prevented ...

— The Red Acorn • John McElroy

... arranged for their Negroes to have all needed pleasure and enjoyment, and in the late summer after cultivation of the crops was complete it was the custom for a number of them to give a large barbecue for their combined groups of slaves, at which huge quantities of beef and pork were served and the care-free hours given over to dancing and general merry-making. "Uncle Dock" recalls that his master, Dan Wilborn, who was a good-natured man of large stature, derived much pleasure in playing his ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... from the lower settlements of the Clinch and Holston valleys, were to return by the Kentucky River, while those from the upper valley would take the shorter way up Sandy Creek. To keep them in provisions during the journey it was ordered that hunters be sent out along these routes to kill and barbecue meat and place it on scaffolds at ...

— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

... means. As soon as I get rid of that little bunch of cattle I'm going to give a barbecue and festival to the countryside in honor of my guests. We'll eat a half dozen fat two-year-old steers and about a thousand loaves of bread and a couple of barrels of claret and a huge mess of chilli sauce. When I announce in the El Toro Sentinel ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

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