barbecue

CEFRA2

/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A meal or event where food is cooked over a fire.

  2. 02

    verb

    To cook food over a fire or hot coals.

Examples

  • Are you free on Saturday? We're having a barbecue.

  • How about holding a barbecue party next Sunday?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • /ˈbɑɹbə-/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

  2. 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.

  3. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

More examples

In context

  • We'll have a barbecue at the beach.

  • She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.

  • We cooked our food on the barbecue.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.