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Meaning of barbecue

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  barbecue
      n 1: meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly
           seasoned sauce [syn: {barbecue}, {barbeque}]
      2: a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire;
         especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit [syn:
         {barbecue}, {barbeque}]
      3: a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out
         of doors [syn: {barbecue}, {barbeque}]
      v 1: cook outdoors on a barbecue grill; "let's barbecue that
           meat"; "We cooked out in the forest" [syn: {barbeque},
           {barbecue}, {cook out}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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