Usually means: Cook food using direct heat.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. grill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. grill, grill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grill, grill: Wordnik
  7. grill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Grill, Grill: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. grill: Wiktionary
  10. grill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. grill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. grill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Grill, grill: Dictionary.com
  14. grill (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. grill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Grill (cooking), Grill (cryptology), Grill (family), Grill (jewelry), Grill (philately), Grill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Grill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. grill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. grill: Rhymezone
  20. Grill (m), grill, grill (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. grill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. grill: Free Dictionary
  23. grill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. grill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. grill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grill: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grill, grill, grill, grill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Grill, the grill: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
noun:  The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
noun:  On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
noun:  (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
noun:  (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
noun:  Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
noun:  A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
noun:  (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
noun:  (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
verb:  (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
verb:  (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.
verb:  (New York City) To stare at.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
verb:  (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.
adjective:  (obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.
noun:  (obsolete) Harm.
noun:  (Internet slang, humorous) Deliberate misspelling of girl. [A young female human, or sometimes a young female animal.]

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