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• (apparatus; event; meat): barbeque; bar-be-que, bar-b-que, bar-B-Q, bar-b-q (informal forms based on the abbreviation)
• (apparatus; event): barbie (Australia, NZ, UK, informal abbreviation)
• (event; meat): BBQ (informal abbreviation)
• (meat): 'cue, 'que, que (US, informal shortenings)

語源

From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from Taíno barbakoa (“framework of sticks”), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally “meal of roasted meat or fish”. Doublet of balbacua and barbacoa.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɑːbɪˌkjuː/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/, /ˈbɑɹbə-/
• ハイフネーション: bar‧be‧cue

名詞

barbecue (countable and uncountable, plural barbecues)

1. A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.

   Coordinate terms: grill, boucan

   We cooked our food on the barbecue.

2. A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.

   We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited.

   • 2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 26 January 2021:

     The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.

3. Meat, 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. (dated) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
   • 2000, Andrew Gerald Gravette, Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean, page 227:

     Drying the coffee beans took place in a barbecue, basically a large, flat platform, where the pulped coffee beans could be laid out and turned as they dried. Barbecues were often walled around and raised above ground level.

6. (obsolete) A framework of sticks.
   • 1705, William Dampier, Voyages and Descriptions, Volume 2, London: James Knapton, “A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World,” Chapter 5, p. 90,

     We found no Houses of Entertainment on the Road, yet at every Village we came we got Houseroom, and a Barbacue of split Bambooes to sleep on.

同意語

• (grill): braai (South African English), buccan, compare grill
• (event): braai (South African English), cookout

派生語

関連する語

• balbacua
• barbacoa

派生した語

• → Cebuano: barbekyu
• → Tagalog: barbikyu

動詞

barbecue (third-person singular simple present barbecues, present participle barbecuing or barbecueing, simple past and past participle barbecued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To grill.
3. (slang, somewhat derogatory, transitive) To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.
   • 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day‎:

     Then he picked up a flamethrower and he barbecued Blitzen
     And he took a big bite and said, "It tastes just like chicken"

同意語

• (grill, barbecue): braai (South African English)

派生語

• barbecue up