kabob
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2.8
- noun
- /kəˈbɑb/
- US
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brocheta
- 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?
- Sounds like a great excuse to go find some kabobs to me, yeah?
- All that time as well as shoving kebabs down your fucking throat, right?
- So for long I'm wrapping up fucking Chinese curries, kebabs.
- If you want to practice doing shish kebabs, breath.
- And it's one of those girls that's got, it's just like a rectangular grill with like shish kebabs going across like like what I call Lulay.
Examples
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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.
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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?
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Right now I'm gonna get me a lamb kabob and a wine cooler.
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Try my kabob.
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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
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1.7
A dish of grilled pieces of meat on a stick, often with vegetables
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2.8
Pieces of meat and vegetables on a skewer cooked over heat
Surface Forms
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.