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noun

Barbecue n.

A framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; also called a barbecue grill.

A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

verb

Barbecue v. t. (past & past part. barbecued; pres. part. barbecuing)

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. "They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke."

To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. "Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued."

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Etymology of 'Barbecue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barbecue" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Whig cause; we do it because we like you personally; and, last, we wish to convince you that we do not bear that hatred to Morgan County that you people have seemed so long to imagine. You will see by the 'Journal' of this week that we propose, upon pain of losing a barbecue, to give you twice as great a majority in this county as you shall receive in your own. I got up ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... gasped with the wonderment of it all. How funny it seemed, how dreadfully funny, that everybody had forgotten everything just because a child had gone up into the sky: Uncle John the bullet, and Mrs. Preston the lost paradise next door, and Ma the barbecue speeches that made niggers vote any which way—all, all that Radicals had ever done ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 • Various

... big barbecue at John Bowie's plantation, which is a few miles below Helena. Invitations to this barbecue had been sent hundreds of miles throughout the surrounding country. We met parties from the depths of the Arkansas wilderness and ...

— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

... the values and attractions of the succulent clam, and he didn't cook a clam so that it tasted like O'Somebody's Heels of New Rubber either. From the Indian we got the original idea of the shore dinner and the barbecue, the planked shad and the hoecake. By following in his footsteps we learned about succotash and hominy. He conferred upon us the inestimable boon of his maize—hence corn bread, corn fritters, fried corn and roasting ears; also his pumpkin and his sweet potato—hence the pumpkin pie of the North ...

— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

... to return by the Kentucky River, while those from the upper valley would take the shorter way up Sandy Creek. To keep them in provisions during the journey it was ordered that hunters be sent out along these routes to kill and barbecue meat and place it on ...

— Pioneers of the Old Southwest - A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground • Constance Lindsay Skinner

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