a cut of meat taken from the ribs cooked by roasting
Ditch the turkey for lean beef rib roast.
rib roast in American English
noun
a cut of beef taken from the small end of the ribs and containing a large rib eye and two or more ribs
Also called: standing rib roast
Word origin
[1885–90]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, foregut, scrum, seminar, twofer
Examples of 'rib roast' in a sentence
rib roast
But they only have one rib roast.
Globe and Mail (2003)
Ribs five to eight come out together — a rib roast.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A customer looks at a rib roast, deems it tired and asks for a different one.