1. meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce • Syn: barbecue • Derivationally related forms: barbecue (for: barbecue) • Hypernyms: dish 2. a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit • Syn: barbecue • Derivationally related forms: barbecue (for: barbecue) • Hypernyms: cookout 3. a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors • Syn: barbecue • Derivationally related forms: barbecue (for: barbecue) • Hypernyms: rack
II - verb
cook outdoors on a barbecue grill - let's barbecue that meat - We cooked out in the forest • Syn: barbecue, cook out • Derivationally related forms: cookout (for: cook out), barbecue (for: barbecue) • Topics: cooking, cookery, preparation • Hypernyms: grill • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Somebody ----s something