kebab

Pluralkebabs

Formskebabs, kebabbing, kebabbed

1. 1
   nounUScountable

   Pieces of meat or vegetables cooked on a stick over heat.

   Like beads on a string, but the beads are pieces of food on a stick.

   I ordered a kebab with peppers and onions at the fair.

   We grilled chicken kebabs in the backyard all summer.

   Similarskewer, brochette

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2. 2
   nounBritishcountable

   Pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables cooked on a stick or spit.

   After the pub closed, they grabbed a kebab from the shop on the corner.

   The takeaway sold kebabs wrapped in warm flatbread.

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3. 3
   nounAustraliacountable

   Roasted meat mixed with vegetables and sauce, wrapped in flat round bread to eat by hand.

   Like a sandwich, but the bread is wrapped around the filling instead of stacked on top.

   She ate a kebab on the walk home, sauce dripping from the wrap.

   The vendor rolled the kebabs in warm flatbread with salad and sauce.

   Similardoner, shawarma, gyro

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   A place where you can buy and eat kebabs.

   We grabbed dinner at the kebab around the corner before the movie.

   Three new kebabs opened on the same street this year.

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5. 5
   verbtransitive

   To cook meat or vegetables on a skewer over heat.

   Like cooking marshmallows on a stick over a fire.

   He kebabed the lamb chunks over hot coals.

   They kebab fresh vegetables every weekend on the grill.

   Similarskewer

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A small button shown as three dots stacked up and down, used to open a menu.

   Like three beads stacked in a short vertical line.

   Tap the kebab in the top corner to open more settings.

   The kebab hides options like share and delete.

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7. 7
   verbslangtransitive

   To stab someone or something, like pushing a stick through it.

   The bull nearly kebabbed the matador with one of its horns.

   Careful, or that broken fence post will kebab your foot.

   Similarstab, pierce, spear, impale, jab

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8. 8
   nouncountable

   The flat parts that grow out sideways from the central thread of a shish-kebab crystal shape.

   Like leaves growing out sideways from a tall stem.

   Each kebab forms at a right angle to the long central thread.

   Under the microscope, the kebabs spread out from the central fiber.

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9. 9
   nounslangvulgarUKcountable

   A rude slang word for the vulva.

   She told him to keep his hands to himself and stay away from her kebab.

   A rude joke about her kebab made her storm out of the party.

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    nounslangethnicoffensiveslurcountable

    A rude and hurtful name for a Muslim person.

    Online trolls called him a kebab and told him to go back home.

    Bigots in the comments wrote off the whole neighborhood as kebabs.

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