kebab

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kəˈbæb/
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/kəˈbæb/ · /kɪˈbæb/ · /kɪˈbɑːb/ · /kɪˈbɑb/

Definition of kebab

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (British)A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
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noun

  1. (British)A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
  2. (Australia)A hand-held dish consisting of pieces of meat roasted on an upright skewer mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and rolled up in a round piece of unleavened bread.
  3. (US)A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
  4. A restaurant that sells kebabs
    “Let's go to the kebab after the club.”
  5. The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
  6. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
  7. (UK, slang, vulgar)The vulva.
  8. A menu icon of three vertical dots.

verb

  1. (transitive)To roast in the style of a kebab.
  2. (slang, transitive)To stab or skewer.
    “I see myself and Quest falling over backwards and his body rolling off my legs, and that wicked metal pommel winking in the sun, having almost kebabbed me.”
    “A bonfire was built in the courtyard of the Church where, 'almost drunk with rage', the mob hacked them into pieces 'so that not even a human shape remained', and then kebabbed them.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

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