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1.nounA 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."
2.nounA meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus."We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited."
3.nounMeat, 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."
4.nounA hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5.nounA floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
6.nounA framework of sticks.
7.verbTo cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
8.verbTo grill.