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BARBECUING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barbecuing mean? 

BARBECUING (noun)
  The noun BARBECUING has 1 sense:

1. roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fireplay

  Familiarity information: BARBECUING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BARBECUING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("barbecuing" is a kind of...):

roasting (cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added))


 Context examples 


Because of the high temperatures used, frying, broiling, and barbecuing produce the largest amounts of heterocyclic amines.

(Heterocyclic Amine Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical that is formed when meat, poultry, or fish is cooked at high temperatures, such as frying, broiling, and barbecuing.

(HCA, NCI Dictionary)



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