Usually means: Critique humorously, often exaggerating flaws.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. roast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. roast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. roast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. roast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. roast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Roast, roast: Wordnik
  7. roast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. roast: Wiktionary
  9. roast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. roast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. roast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Roast, roast: Dictionary.com
  13. roast (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. roast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Roast (comedy), Roast (disambiguation), Roast, The Roast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Roast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. roast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. roast: Rhymezone
  19. roast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. roast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Roast: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. roast: Free Dictionary
  23. roast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. roast: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. roast: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roast: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ROAST: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. roast, roast, roast, roast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Roast, the Roast: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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