barbecue

• (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
• (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
• (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
• (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/, /ˈbɑɹbə-/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   Coordinate terms: grill, boucan

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

3. 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.

   She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw.

4. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
   • 2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227:

     Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.

6. (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
   • 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,^[1]

     We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

• balbacua
• barbacoa

• → Cebuano: barbekyu
• → Tagalog: barbikyu

barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)

1. To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. To grill.
3. To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.
   • 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day‎^[2]:

     Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen
     And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"

• (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)

• barbecue up

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑrbəkju/

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• Hyphenation: bar‧be‧cue

Borrowed from English barbecue.

barbecue m (plural barbecues, diminutive barbecuetje n)

1. barbecue

• barbecueën
• barbeknoei

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

barbecue

1. inflection of barbecueën:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
2. inflection of barbecuen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

Borrowed from English barbecue.

• IPA^(key): /baʁ.bə.kju/

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barbecue m (plural barbecues)

1. barbecue
   • 2015 July 17, Monde‎^[3]:

     Repéré par tous les réseaux de foodistas depuis son lancement, en 2011, le Braisenville a imposé son décor, censé évoquer la palette chromatique du barbecue (lustres orange braise, briques noir charbon, sol ciment gris cendre), et un vrai concept culinaire.

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• barbec
• barbeuc

• “barbecue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English barbecue, from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bɛ.kju/

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• Rhymes: -arbɛkju
• Syllabification: bar‧be‧cue

barbecue n (indeclinable)

1. barbecue (cooking instrument)

   Synonyms: ruszt, grill

2. barbecue (meal)

   Synonym: grill

3. barbecue sauce

• barbecue in Polish dictionaries at PWN

barbecue c

1. a barbecue

   Synonym: grillfest

• barbecue in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• barbecue in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)