barbecue
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barbecue
- /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/ UK
- /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/ US
- /ˈbɑɹbə-/ US
Where it comes from
From 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.
noun barbecues · barbeque · bar-be-que · bar-b-que · bar-B-Q · bar-b-q
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A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
We cooked our food on the barbecue.
Similar: braai, buccan, compare grill
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.
- Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded. She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.
- A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried. Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.
- A framework of sticks. 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90, We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.
verb barbecues · barbecuing · barbecueing · barbecued · barbeque
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
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To grill.
Similar: braai
- To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn. Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cook out, bbq, barbeque, cookout, barbie, picnic, picnicking, dustpan, shovel, grill, roasting, heat, recruitment, premise, fire box, hibachi
Translations
Every language
noun cooking instrument
| Español | barbacoa, parrilla, asador |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 바비큐 babikyu, 그릴 geuril |
| 日本語 | バーベキュー bābekyū, グリル guriru |
| 中文 | 燒烤 /烧烤 shāokǎo |
| Português | churrasqueira |
| Français | barbecue |
| Deutsch | Grill, Barbecue, Grillen, Grillplatte, Grillteller |
| Italiano | fornacella |
| Ελληνικά | ψησταριά psistariá, σχάρα schára |
| Română | grătar |
| Русский | барбекю́ barbekjú, гриль grilʹ, шашлы́чница šašlýčnica |
| العربية | شِوَاء šiwāʔ, بَارْبِيكْيُو barbikyū |
| עברית | מנגל |
noun a fireplace for cooking food
| Русский | гриль grilʹ, барбекю́ barbekjú, шашлы́чница šašlýčnica, барбекю́шница barbekjúšnica, ра́шпер rášper |
|---|---|
| العربية | مِشْوَاة mišwāh |
noun meal
| Español | barbacoa, parrillada, asado |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 바비큐 babikyu |
| 日本語 | バーベキュー bābekyū, 焼肉 yakiniku |
| Português | churrasco |
| Français | barbecue, grillades, barbeuc |
| Deutsch | Grillparty |
| Română | grătar |
| Русский | барбекю́ barbekjú, жарко́е žarkóje, гриль grilʹ, шашлыки́ šašlykí |
| Tiếng Việt | thịt nướng hun khói |
| العربية | مَشْوِيَّات mašwiyyāt |
Talk about this word "barbecue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/barbecue. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. barbecue. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/barbecue "barbecue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/barbecue.Cite this
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title = {barbecue},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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