barbecue

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
2. 2
   A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
3. 3
   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.
4. 4
   A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
5. 5
   A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
6. 6
   A framework of sticks.

Verb

1. 1
   To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
2. 2
   To grill.
3. 3
   To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.