How to Spell barbecue

barbecue - noun

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

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

• 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.

• A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.