[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["pieces of meat, fowl, fish, or the like, roasted or smoked over fire, especially when basted in a barbecue sauce barbecue sauce:The restaurant serves amazing barbecue.", "a framework, such as a grill or a spit, for cooking meat or vegetables over an open fire:Make sure you clean off the barbecue so it's ready to use when we go camping.", "a meal, usually in the open air and often as a social gathering, at which meats are roasted on a grill or over an open hearth or pit.", "any social gathering centered around food, especially meat, that is cooked over fire using a grill, spit, smoker, or the like:Our weekend barbecue was lively until it started to rain.", "a dressed steer, lamb, or other animal, roasted whole."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to broil, smoke, or roast (meat, fowl, fish, or the like) whole or in large pieces over an open fire, using a spit, grill, smoker, or the like, often seasoning with vinegar, spices, salt, and pepper:They barbecued a chicken and some steaks for dinner.", "to cook (sliced or diced meat, fowl, fish, or the like) in a highly seasoned sauce."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to cook over an open fire using an instrument such as a grill, spit, or smoker, or to host a social gathering where food is cooked in this manner:If the weather's nice, we'll barbecue in the backyard."]}]