| 单词 | barbecue |
| 释义 | barbecue (once / 4207 pages) nv A barbecue is an outdoor party where food is cooked on a grill or over a fire. Your family might host a barbecue every summer to celebrate the end of the school year. If you're invited to a barbecue, you'll probably be served meat that's been slowly cooked or smoked over a fire, served with sweet and spicy barbecue sauce. Sometimes this kind of food itself is called barbecue, and the oven or grill that's used is also a barbecue. This word dates from the 17th century, from the Spanish barbacoa, which probably stems from the Arawakan barbakoa, "framework of sticks" used to cure meat. WORD FAMILYbarbecue: barbecued, barbecues, barbecuing USAGE EXAMPLESThink again: Lang’s brisket recently earned a salute from the Houston Chronicle’s barbecue columnist. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) SYDNEY, Australia — Christmas and New Year in Australia typically involve barbecues, beaches and beer. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) Sonderman will, no doubt, find the right mix of woods for his barbecue. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1n a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit Syn|Hyper barbeque cookout an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors 2n a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors Syn|Hyper barbeque rack framework for holding objects 3n meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce Syn|Hyper barbeque dish a particular item of prepared food 4v cook outdoors on a barbecue grill let's barbecue that meat Syn|Hyper barbeque, cook out grill cook over a grill |
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