barbecues
Meaning of barbecues
plural noun
- 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
- 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:
Meaning a picnic or barbecue where meat is grilled over an open fire:
Meaning a barbecue:
Meaning cook (food) using a grill:
Meaning cook (meat or fish) by exposure to direct heat:
Meaning grill (food, especially meat) on a rack over charcoal:
Words that rhyme with barbecues
cues, cardecues, curlicues, pirlicues, purlicues, autocues, fescues, miscues, rescues, curlycues
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