barbecue

1. 1.

   cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

   “let's barbecue that meat”

   “We cooked out in the forest”

   Synonymsbarbequecook out

   Broadergrill

   cooking

Other forms of barbecue

plural

barbecues·

past tense

barbecued·

present participle

barbecuing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barbecue

What does barbecue mean?

barbecue means "meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barbecue?

barbecue has 3 syllables: bar-be-cue. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹbɪˌkju/.

What is another word for barbecue?

Close synonyms include barbeque, barbeque, barbeque, barbeque, cook out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbecue a common word?

barbecue is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with barbecue?

5 words rhyme with barbecue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.