Usually means: Grilling food over open flame.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbecue: Merriam-Webster
  2. barbecue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbecue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbecue: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbecue: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbecue, barbecue: Wordnik
  7. barbecue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barbecue: Wiktionary
  9. barbecue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barbecue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barbecue: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barbecue, barbecue: Dictionary.com
  13. barbecue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. barbecue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Barbecue (G.I. Joe), Barbecue (disambiguation), Barbecue (film), Barbecue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Barbecue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. barbecue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. barbecue: Rhymezone
  19. barbecue, barbecue, barbecue (de), barbecue (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. barbecue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BARBECUE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. barbecue: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. barbecue: FreeDictionary.org
  24. barbecue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. barbecue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Barbecue: World Wide Words
  27. Barbecue: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  28. barbecue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbecue: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbecue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbecue, barbecue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Barbecue, barbecue, barbecue: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See barbecued as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
noun:  A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
noun:  Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
noun:  (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
noun:  A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
noun:  (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
verb:  To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
verb:  To grill.
verb:  To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.

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