barbecues

noun

a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire

meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

verb

cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

Roots

barbacoabarbecue- · Taino · wooden frame

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The word barbecues breaks down into one root of Taino origin: the root barbecue-, from Taino barbacoa (“wooden frame”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.