barbeque

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barbeque

We are having a barbeque in the backyard this weekend.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A cooking apparatus: A rack or grill used to hold food, typically meat, for cooking over hot charcoal or an open fire, usually outdoors.
    • An outdoor social event: A cookout or social gathering where food is cooked and eaten outdoors, often featuring food cooked over an open fire or grill.
    • The cooked food itself: Meat or other food that has been cooked using this method, often with a highly seasoned sauce.

  2. Verb:

    • To cook using a barbecue: To prepare food by cooking it on a rack or grill over an open fire or hot charcoal, usually outdoors.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • We need to clean the barbeque before the party. (Referring to the cooking grill)
    • The neighborhood barbeque is this Saturday. (Referring to the social event)
    • I'll have the chicken barbeque, please. (Referring to the cooked food)

  • Verb:

    • They barbeque sausages every weekend.
    • Let's barbeque the vegetables as well.
Advanced Usage

  • "to barbeque something to perfection": to cook something on a barbecue grill until it is perfectly done.

    • My father knows how to barbeque a steak to perfection.

  • As an adjective (attributive use): Used before a noun to describe something related to this cooking method.

    • barbeque sauce, barbeque grill, barbeque party
Variants and Related Words
  • Barbecue: An alternative, more common spelling of the same word. The definitions and usage are identical.
  • BBQ: A common abbreviation.
  • Grill (verb/noun): A close synonym, though "grill" can imply a slightly different cooking method (often with direct heat from below) and is not exclusively outdoors.
  • Cookout (noun): A synonym for the social event meaning.
Synonyms
  • Grill (verb): To cook on a grill over direct heat.
  • Roast (verb): To cook, especially meat, by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire. (Note: "roast" often implies an oven or spit, not necessarily a grill.)
  • Broil (verb): To cook by direct exposure to radiant heat (usually from above in an oven). (Note: This is an indoor cooking method.)
Related Phrasal Verbs/Phrases
  • To fire up the barbeque: To start the fire in a barbecue grill in preparation for cooking.
    • It's a sunny day; I'm going to fire up the barbeque.
Related Idioms
  • (Sell/Talk) a mile a minute: This idiom is not directly related to "barbeque." No common English idiom is centrally built around the word "barbeque." Social idioms often associate with the event itself, e.g., "to have a lot on one's plate" (to be very busy) could be used humorously at a barbeque, but it is not specific to it.
barbeque

We are having a barbeque in the backyard this weekend.

Noun
  1. a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors
  2. a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit
  3. meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce
Verb
  1. cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
    • let's barbecue that meat
    • We cooked out in the forest

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