1660s, from barbecue (n.). Related: Barbecued; barbecuing.

1650s, "framework for grilling meat, fish, etc.," from American Spanish barbacoa, from Arawakan (Haiti) barbakoa "framework of sticks," the raised wooden structure the Indians used [..]

Usually used generally to refer to grilling done outdoors or over an open charcoal or wood fire. More specifically, barbecue refers to long, slow direct- heat cooking, including liberal basting with a barbecue sauce.

1. A method of cooking meat, poultry or fish or even vegetables and fruit. Is covered and slowly cooked in a pit or on a spit, using hot coals or hardwood as a heat source. 2. A brazier fitted with a [..]

It is a derivative of the West Indian term barbacoa, which denotes a method of slow-cooking meat over hot coals.

There are several theories on where or how the word “barbecue” originated.  (1) One is that it is a derivative of the West Indian term barbacoa, which denotes a method of slow-cooking meat over hot co [..]

To cook foods on a rack or a spit over coals.

To cook meats, poultry, or vegetables over woods, charcoal, or gas on a grill, in open pits or on a spit over high heat. Sometimes marinating first and basting during the cooking time.

Arkansas lost one of its original meats -- goat! -- thanks to changing tastes after World War II.  However, the state has never been tied to one particular barbecue meat over another.  There are menti [..]

(n) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce(n) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit(n) a rack to hold mea [..]

the word barbecue refers to a social gathering where the carcass of an animal is roasted whole.

to roast or broil whole, as a hog, fowl, etc. Usually done on a revolving frame over coals or upright in front of coals. To cook thin slices of meat in a highly seasoned vinegar sauce.

to roast meat slowly over coals on a spit or framework, or to roast in an oven, basting intermittently with a special kind of sauce

The noun of this word means a rack for drying meats. The verb usage ‘barbecue’ would mean to slow cook on a rack over burning embers.

The most usual modern definition of this is the grilling of meats, chicken or other foods over an open fire, usually made with charcoal briquettes. Such food sometimes is marinated or basted, and alwa [..]

Either an apparatus for cooking meat with heat from wood, charcoal, or gas, usually used outdoors; or the act of cooking meat over such an apparatus; or the resulting cooked product; or a gathering that includes items cooked on such an apparatus.

Roasting Low & Slow, sometimes with Flavor Enhancement from Wood Smoke.

A 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.'' A meal or event highlighted [..]