barbecue

/ˈbɑɹbəˌkjuː/

nounverbbar · be · cue

Think: “BAR + BE + CUE” — you eat at the BAR, you BE there, and you line up on CUE for food.

Yes, it's barbecue. The tricky ending sounds like “cue” and is spelled C-U-E: bar-be-cue.

Definitions

  1. nounA meal or gathering where food (often meat) is cooked outdoors over a grill or open fire.
  2. nounThe grill or outdoor cooking device used to cook food over heat.
  3. verbTo cook food over a grill or open fire, often outdoors.

Examples

  • We had a barbecue in the backyard and grilled corn and burgers.
  • Dad cleaned the barbecue before lighting the coals.
  • Let’s barbecue chicken on Saturday if the weather is nice.

Synonyms

cookoutgrilloutdoor cookoutbarbequeBBQ

Translations

ES barbacoaPT churrascoFR barbecue

Common misspellings

barbequebarbacuebarbeqbarbequeuebarbecubarbequeubarbeccuebarbecque

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