barbecues

Meaning of barbecues

plural noun
  1. a meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance.
    in the evening there was a barbecue
    a barbecue area
verb, 3rd person present
  1. cook (food) on a barbecue.
    fish barbecued with herbs
    barbecued chicken

mid 17th century: from Spanish barbacoa, perhaps from Arawak barbacoa ‘wooden frame on posts’. The original sense was ‘wooden framework for sleeping on, or for storing meat or fish to be dried’.

Information about barbecues

  • The singular form of barbecues is: barbecue.
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Hyphenation of barbecues

bar-be-cues

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • barbecues is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

barbecues synonyms

Meaning a party or gathering where a meal is cooked and eaten outdoors:

cookout

Meaning a picnic or barbecue where meat is grilled over an open fire:

braaivleis

Meaning a barbecue:

barbie

Meaning cook (food) using a grill:

grill

Meaning cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat:

broil

Meaning grill (food, especially meat) on a rack over charcoal:

charbroil

Words that rhyme with barbecues

cues, cardecues, curlicues, pirlicues, purlicues, autocues, fescues, miscues, rescues, curlycues

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