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| barbecue | |
| 1. n. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. |  |
| We cooked our food on the barbecue. | |
| 2. n. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. | |
| We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited. | |
| 3. n. 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. | |
| She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw. | |
| 4. n. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. | |
| 5. n. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A framework of sticks. | |
| 7. v. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels. | |
| 8. v. To grill. | |
