Usually means: Humorous, often mocking, personal critiques.
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  1. roasts: Merriam-Webster
  2. roasts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. roasts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Roasts, roasts: Wordnik
  5. roasts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. roasts: Wiktionary
  7. roasts: Dictionary.com
  8. roasts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. roasts: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. roasts: Encyclopedia

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  1. roasts: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (roast)

verb:  (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
verb:  To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
verb:  To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
verb:  (metalworking) To dissipate the volatile parts of by heat, as ores.
noun:  A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
noun:  A meal consisting of roast foods.
noun:  The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
noun:  An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
noun:  A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
noun:  (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
noun:  (slang) A creative insult as a response to something someone said.
adjective:  Having been cooked by roasting.
adjective:  (figuratively) Subjected to roasting; bantered; severely criticized.
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