barbeque

bar•be•cue

or bar•be•que

(ˈbɑr bɪˌkyu)

n., v. -cued or -qued, -cu•ing or -qu•ing. n. 1. pieces of meat, poultry, or fish roasted over an open hearth, esp. when basted with a barbecue sauce. 2. a grill, spit, or fireplace for cooking food over an open fire. 3. a meal, usu. outdoors, at which foods are so cooked. 4. a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole. v.t. 5. to broil or roast over an open fire. 6. to cook (meat, poultry, or fish) in a barbecue sauce. v.i. 7. to have a barbecue. [1655–65; < Sp barbacoa < Taino barbacoa a raised frame of sticks] bar′be•cu`er, n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	barbeque - meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned saucebarbecuedish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
	2.	barbeque - a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spitbarbecuecookout - an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors
	3.	barbeque - a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doorsbarbecuerack - framework for holding objects
Verb	1.	barbeque - cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that meat"; "We cooked out in the forest"barbecue, cook outcookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"grill - cook over a grill; "grill the sausages"