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

"We cooked our food on the barbecue."

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

"We're having a barbecue on Saturday, and you're invited."

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.

"She ordered a plate of barbecue with a side of slaw."

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

A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

A framework of sticks.

To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.

To grill.