Barbeques Word Meaning

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’

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

gathering to cook food outdoors

• in the evening there was a barbecue
• a barbecue area

• barbeque

cook (food) on a barbecue

cook food on barbecue

• fish barbecued with herbs
• barbecued chicken

• barbeque