mixed grilln.
/ˌmɪks(t) ˈɡrɪl/, U.S. /ˈmɪks(t) ˈɡrɪl/ British.
A dish consisting of several different grilled or fried items of food. Also figurative.
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1910 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Apr. 7/4 The salad and the cheese may be chosen with epicurean taste, but it's a mixed grill every day where the music is concerned.
1913 W. P. Ridge Mixed Grill (title) Mixed grill.
1922 A. Huxley Mortal Coils 201 ‘Two mixed grills,’ I said..to the waiter.
1936 J. C. Goodwin One of Crowd xix. 271 Speakers' Corner is a mixed grill of apostles and propagators, of oddities and crudities, of fanatics and eccentrics.
1967 D. Campbell in Coast to Coast 1965–6 21 It takes me half an hour to get outside the mixed grill and the ice-cream and coffee.
1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 1555/3 The audience will be a mixed-grill of faculty, students, alumni, businessmen, and perhaps a few who have simply wandered in from the rain.
1997 B. Morrow Giovanni's Gift i. 83 We caught a creelful of small trout to add to the mixed grill of ribs and chicken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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