noun🔗ShareA 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."foodutensiltraditioncultureentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus."Summer weekends are for barbecues with family and friends. "foodevententertainmentcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareMeat, 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."foodutensilentertainmenttraditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast."The annual company picnic always features barbecues of whole pigs, roasted slowly over open pits. "foodfestivalculturetraditionentertainmenteventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried."The coffee cooperative built new barbecues to improve the quality of their sun-dried beans. "agricultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA framework of sticks."The villagers use barbecues to hold the fish over the fire to smoke it. "utensilfoodChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels."We barbecues chicken every Sunday in the backyard. "foodutensilactionentertainmentcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo grill."We barbecues burgers and hot dogs every weekend in the summer. "foodutensilentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
