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kabob

kabob

12 2.8
Pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a stick
  • noun
  • /kəˈbɑb/
  • US
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  • At the food festival, we enjoyed juicy lamb kabobs served on skewers with fresh vegetables.
  • grilled kabobs
  • Shish kabob
  • chicken kabob

Sounds like a great excuse to go find some kabobs to me, yeah?

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Examples

  • These vegetable kabobs are meant to look like caterpillars.

    Blog text (10)
  • I was at a wedding a couple of weeks ago, and they had lovely fruit kabobs made up of a couple of big strawberries, a pineapple chunk, and two different melon chunks.

    Blog text (28)
  • - Okay, okay, you can try my kabob later.

  • We do have the Kabob festival coming up next month.

    Blog text (8)
  • Sounds like a great excuse to go find some kabobs to me, yeah?

  • Right now I'm gonna get me a lamb kabob and a wine cooler.

  • Try my kabob.

  • He comes by my coffee house nearly every day to eat a falafel or kabob sandwich and to ask about my day.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Traditional kefta kabob is usually ground beef seasoned with parsley and onion.

    Blog text (10)
  • Liver kabobs, beef liver to be exact, grilled over charcoal.

Synonyms

kebab
vskabob
23 1.7

A dish of grilled pieces of meat on a stick, often with vegetables

is served with vegetables only sometimes rather than usually
shish kebab
vskabob
4 2.8

Pieces of meat and vegetables on a skewer cooked over heat

is often marinated rather than always prepared that way

Surface Forms

kabob singular
kabobs plural
kebabs plural
kebab singular

Etymology

The word kabob comes from the Middle Eastern word kebab, from Arabic kabāb, which means 'roasted'. So a kabob is pieces of meat and often vegetables cooked 'roasted' on a stick or skewer, like a small barbecue.