barbecue
To cook food on a barbecueTo cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
Meaning
3 senses(intransitive, transitive)To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
grillen
жа́ритьžáritʹ
cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
(intransitive, transitive)To grill.
(derogatory, slang, transitive)To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.
Examples
158 sentencesTranslations
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Origin
From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework ofFrom 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.
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Forms
barbecues, barbecuing, barbecued, barbecuedSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.