🔥 To cook in oven 🍖 A large meat 🍗 Cooked by roasting 🎤 A teasing event 😆 To tease playfully

roast

53 7.3

An event where people make jokes that insult one person for fun

noun
/roʊst/

Offensive

: roast

Also, professionally recorded DVDs of the Roast, produced by Anderson Productions, are available from the museum for $40.
a celebrity roast
a comedy roast

It happens as Justin Bieber has a roast that we do on Comedy Central.

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Examples

"Everybody's been asking me, 'What on earth are you going to say at Bourdain's roast?'

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The first annual Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Roast, featuring Coach Jack Carlisle, was a huge success.

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This guest is the host of F Boy Island Comedy Central Roast and is on tour with the Good Girl Tour.

I've Had It
Welcome to the Christmas roast.

The Company (2003)
Just a friendly roast, or eh, you get the idea.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the roast, Dave Portnoy.
The 22 Best Lines From Last Night's Roast of Anthony Bourdain

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The roast for the retiring teacher was filled with laughter as colleagues poked fun at her teaching style.
At his birthday party, they held a roast to celebrate him with funny stories and playful jabs.
Everyone enjoyed the roast that featured hilarious anecdotes about their friend's most embarrassing moments.

Synonyms

roasting

vsroast

Offensive

1 5.4

Making jokes about a person in front of others to tease them

is the formal speech or event that contains such mocking and criticism

harsh roast

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Informal

7.9

A strong mocking criticism of someone's words or actions

is the usual event of humorous insults but milder in severity

Antonyms

compliment

300 1.6

A polite remark that praises someone or something

flattery

37 4.7

Praise people give without meaning it to get something from someone

Compounds

roast beef

33 1.0

Sliced beef cooked in an oven and served as a main dish

pot roast

28 2.4

A large piece of beef slow cooked in liquid in a covered pot with vegetables like carrots and potatoes

roast chicken

18 1.0

Chicken cooked in an oven until brown and served as a main meal

roast pork

7 1.0

Pork cooked in an oven and served as a main dish

rump roast

4 3.6

A cut of beef from the back of a cow used for roasting or slow cooking

pork roast

4 1.6

A cut of pork cooked in an oven until tender

roast beef sandwich

4 1.0

A sandwich made with slices of roast beef, served hot or cold

weenie roast

Informal

4 7.2

An informal outdoor gathering where people cook hot dogs over an open fire

roast lamb

3 1.6

Meat from a young sheep that is cooked in an oven or over a fire until brown

rib roast

2 2.8

A large cut of meat with several ribs cooked whole

beef roast

1 1.3

A large piece of beef cooked in an oven and served as a main dish

lamb roast

1 2.0

A large piece of lamb cooked whole in an oven

veal roast

1 3.7

A piece of young cow meat cooked in an oven

crown roast

1 5.5

A round cooked meat made from lamb ribs arranged like a crown

roast veal

1 2.6

Meat from a young cow that is cooked in an oven

standing rib roast

1 5.2

A large cut of beef with several ribs, roasted standing up

wiener roast

Informal

1 7.1

A casual outdoor party where people cook hot dogs over a fire and eat them

blade roast

1 5.1

A cut of meat from the shoulder used for roasting

harsh roast

Informal

7.9

A strong mocking criticism of someone's words or actions

roast beef plant

9.9

A type of iris with purple flowers and leaves that smell bad

How Insulting

to attack

538 3.4

roast

Offensive

53 7.3

to lampoon

8 7.7

Surface Forms

roast singular

roasts plural

Etymology

Roast (noun, event) comes from the verb roast meaning 'to mock', so a roast event is a public, joking 'burn' where friends make fun of the guest of honour.