spit-roast

• spit roast, spitroast

spit-roast (third-person singular simple present spit-roasts, present participle spit-roasting, simple past and past participle spit-roasted)

1. (transitive) To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).
   • 1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.

   • 2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:

     Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.

   • 2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226:

     That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.

2. (transitive, slang, sex, somewhat vulgar) To engage in the sexual practice wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

• “spit-roast, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.