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Word: Barbecue
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century: from Spanish barbacoa, perhaps from Arawak barbacoa ‘wooden frame on posts’. The original sense was ‘wooden framework for sleeping on, or for storing meat or fish to be dried’
ˈbɑːbɪkjuː
a meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance
Short Definition:gathering to cook food outdoors
Examples:- in the evening there was a barbecue
- a barbecue area
- barbeque
Word: Barbecue
Speech Type: Verb
ˈbɑːbɪkjuː
cook (food) on a barbecue
Short Definition:cook food on barbecue
Examples:- fish barbecued with herbs
- barbecued chicken
- barbeque
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