Bar-b-que

barbecue.
pieces of beef, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted over an open hearth, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce.
a framework, as a grill or a spit, or a fireplace for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire.
a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole.
a meal, usually in the open air and often as a political or social gathering, at which meats are roasted over an open hearth or pit.
to broil or roast whole or in large pieces over an open fire, on a spit or grill, often seasoning with vinegar, spices, salt, and pepper.
to cook (sliced or diced meat or fish) in a highly seasoned sauce.
to cook by barbecuing or to entertain at a barbecue:
if the weather’s nice, we’ll barbecue in the backyard.
contemporary examples

you can serve him up at a formal sunday dinner, or in shirtsleeves at a casual summer bar-b-que.
sarah palin’s newest rival mark mckinnon october 26, 2010

noun
a meal cooked out of doors over an open fire
an outdoor party or picnic at which barbecued food is served
a grill or fireplace used in barbecuing
the food so cooked
verb (transitive) -cues, -cuing, -cued
to cook (meat, fish, etc) on a grill, usually over charcoal and often with a highly seasoned sauce
to cook (meat, fish, etc) in a highly seasoned sauce
n.

1650s, “framework for grilling meat, fish, etc.,” from american spanish barbacoa, from arawakan (haiti) barbakoa “framework of sticks,” the raised wooden structure the indians used to either sleep on or cure meat. sense of “outdoor meal of roasted meat or fish as a social entertainment” is from 1733; modern popular noun sense of “grill for cooking over an open fire” is from 1931.
v.

1660s, from barbecue (n.). related: barbecued; barbecuing.