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What does "barbecue" mean?

Barbecue: A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
  2. 3.To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.
  3. 4.To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog. Send me, gods, a whole hog barbecued. Pope.

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