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English
Noun
barbeque (countable and uncountable, plural barbeques)
- (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”)
2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28: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.
2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 152:‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’
Verb
barbeque (third-person singular simple present barbeques, present participle barbequing or barbequeing, simple past and past participle barbequed)
- (sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of barbecue
2013, Kenneth Eade, chapter 22, in An Involuntary Spy, New York, N.Y.: Times Square Publishing, →ISBN, page 92: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.
References
- Paul Brians (2009) “barbecue”, in Common Errors in English Usage, 2nd edition, Wilsonville, Or.: William, James & Company, →ISBN.