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roast

Definition

  • verb: to cook (food such as chicken, potatoes, or beef) with dry heat in an oven or over a fire
  • verb: to cook by exposing to dry heat (as in an oven or before a fire) or by surrounding with hot embers, sand, or stones
  • synonyms: burn, roasted, cook

Examples

  • You must be 'roasting' [='baking, sweltering'] in that sweater.

  • Friends and family 'roasted' him at his 40th birthday party.

  • The movie is being 'roasted' by the critics.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) considering our situation. The night we went gambling, remember? We had dinner at the hotel. Etta had roast beef, and I had chicken. If I can remember what you had, I'll die happy. Look out there. (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid