barbeque

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable)Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”).

   “She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill.”

   “‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’”

verb

1. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes)Alternative spelling of barbecue.

   “When they arrived, Masha and Natasha joined the other girls in the kitchen, and Pasha scurried Seth out into the great outdoors with the men to barbeque shashliki, a delicious Russian marinated meat.”