to barbecue
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1.3
- verb
- /ˈbɑːrbɪkjuː/
:
asar a la parrilla
- We want to relax, watch football, and barbecue a rack of ribs.
- barbecue chicken
Little things like getting together at our house or at another person's house to barbecue in the backyard.
- Little things like getting together at our house or at another person's house to barbecue in the backyard.
- Because my boy Aaron, the island boy, he's a he want to barbecue for everything.
Examples
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Every summer, we barbecue chicken and corn on the grill during family gatherings.
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I'm worried about you barbecuing all the time.
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Well, the kids are going to barbecue tonight, but, why not?
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Let me catch you here again and I'll barbecue some hot dog!
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Want to learn how to barbecue?
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I love to barbecue, and I have built many, many barbecues in the last couple years.
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We're gonna barbecue tonight.
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In the background, soldiers are barbecuing steaks and drinking beer.
Fiction book (1994) -
I passed a man who stood turning barbecued ribs over a silver kettle-drum grill.
Fiction book (2002) -
They'd barbecue some burgers on the grill, and Marge would make her potato salad.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
To cook food using dry heat in an oven or over a fire
140
1.0
To cook food over direct heat on metal bars
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2.8
To cook food with strong heat from above so the top becomes brown or crispy
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3.5
Make food outside on a grill or open fire
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3.5
To cook food over hot coals or an open flame to give it a slightly charred, smoky taste
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Etymology
Barbecue as a verb comes from the old name barbacoa, so to 'barbecue' is simply to cook food over an open fire or on a grill. This explains why we say 'They will barbecue the chicken' when we mean they will cook it outside over heat.