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🥩 Grilled meat dish 🎉 Barbecue gathering
churrasco

churrasco

7.9
A social meal where people cook and eat grilled meat, often beef
  • noun
  • /tʃʊˈrɑːskoʊ/
  • UK
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  • During the summer festival, the churrasco served with fresh salads and sauces drew a big crowd of hungry guests.

Examples

  • The smell of grilled meat filled the air during the family churrasco.

  • At the beach, they organized a traditional churrasco with music and dancing.

  • We invited our friends to a churrasco in the backyard last Saturday.

  • We enjoyed a delicious churrasco last night.

  • Have you ever tried churrasco with chimichurri sauce?

  • At the family reunion, we enjoyed a delicious churrasco in the backyard, where everyone gathered around the grill.

  • He invited his friends over for a churrasco, where they ate grilled meats and shared stories late into the night.

Synonyms

barbecue
vschurrasco
144 1.2

An outdoor meal where people cook food on a grill and eat together

is a South American meal focusing on grilled beef rather than varied outdoor roasting

Surface Forms

churrasco singular
churrascos plural

Etymology

Churrasco also means the social meal where people share grilled meat, much like the English 'barbecue', because the name for the food became the name for the party where people eat it.