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countable and uncountable, plural barbecues
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium. examples
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus. examples
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. examples
(dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast. examples
A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried. quotations examples
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.
2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227
(obsolete) A framework of sticks. quotations
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.
1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90
third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued
To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels. examples
To grill. examples