Barbecue vs. Barbie — What's the Difference?

Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK and US, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods which use live fire and smoke to cook the food. The term is also generally applied to the devices associated with those methods, the broader cuisines that these methods produce, and the meals or gatherings at which this style of food is cooked and served.

Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

A meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance

A barbecue grill or pit.

Cook (food) on a barbecue

A barbecue apparatus for grilling.

A grill, pit, or outdoor fireplace for roasting meat.

A barbecue event: cookout.

A whole animal carcass or section thereof roasted or broiled over an open fire or on a spit.

A barbiturate.

A social gathering, usually held outdoors, at which food is cooked over an open flame.

Meat or seafood cooked in or served with barbecue sauce.

To roast, broil, or grill (meat or seafood) over live coals or an open fire, often basting with a seasoned sauce.

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

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

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.

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

A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

(obsolete) A framework of sticks.

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

To grill.

A framework of metal or brick, usually with a grill on top, in which a fire is lighted and on which food is cooked, usually outdoors; - also called a barbecue grill.

A social entertainment, where people assemble, usually in the open air, at which a meal is prepared on a barbecue grill.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

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

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.

To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.

Meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

A cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

A rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

Cook outdoors on a barbecue grill;