barbecue
noun
[ ˈbɑːbɪkjuː ]
• 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"
barbecue
verb
• cook (food) on a barbecue.
• "fish barbecued with herbs"
Origin:
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’.
