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Definition: Barbeque |
BarbequeNoun1. Meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce. 2. A cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit. 3. A rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Personal Care & Hotels | A metal rack on which meat and fish are roasted, b: an often portable fire place with such a rack. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: BarbequeSynonym: barbecue (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: barbecue (personal care & hotels). |
Crosswords: Barbeque |
| Specialty definitions using "barbeque": All up in my grill. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Barbeque" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (barbecue). |
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Screenplays | I wanted the audience to feel the heat from the fire, the fear, because people don't like fire, poked, poked in their noses, you know when you get a cinder from a barbeque right on the end of your nose and you kind of make that face, you know, that's not a good thing, and I wanted them to have the sense memory of that (Waiting for Guffman; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Eugene Levy) I want my barbeque! (Trailer Park Boys; writing credit: Mike Clattenburg; Barrie Dunn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Barbeque Chicken Movie (1990) | |
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 | A group of two adults and four children around a picnic table having a barbeque. Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer). |  | Connellsville, "Convict's Barbeque" outside Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Saying grace before the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grace was said before the barbeque was served at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Getting ready to serve the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico eating at the barbeque. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Serving up the barbeque at the Pie Town, New Mexico, Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Barbeque" by Kevin Blomqvist Commentary: "Barbeque in karlskrona with a "disposablegrill"." |
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| "Barbeque" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Barbeque" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "barbeque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 烤肉 (Barbecue, barbecued). (various references) | |
French | boucanière (barbecue), barbaquier (barbecue). (various references) | |
Korean | 바비큐. (various references) | |
Manx | fleah foalley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbequebay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "barbeque": barbequed, barbeques. (additional references) | |
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"Barbeque" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abbaesque, barbaque, Barbiaux, barbique, bilbeque, Birabeau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "barbeque" (pronounced bÄ"rbikyuw') |
| 8 | b Ä" r b i k y uw' | barbecue. |
| 3 | -k y uw' | fescue. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-e-q-r-u" | |
-2 letters: barque, baubee, quaere. | |
-3 letters: barbe, quare, queer, rebbe. | |
-4 letters: abbe, babe, babu, barb, bare, bear, beau, beer, brae, bree, bura, rube, urea. | |
-5 letters: arb, are, bar, bee, bra, bub, bur, ear, eau, ebb, era, ere, qua, reb, ree, rub, rue, urb. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-e-q-r-u" | |
+1 letter: barbequed, barbeques. | |
+4 letters: equiprobable. | |
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