English Dictionary

barbecue

/ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/

noun

A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. / A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

We had a delicious barbecue in the backyard.

意味（1）

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

We cooked our food on the barbecue.

意味（2）

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

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

意味（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.

意味（4）

(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

意味（5）

A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

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.

意味（6）

(obsolete) A framework of sticks.

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.