grill

Plural: grills, grillz

Noun

• a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill
• a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate
  • "he cooked hamburgers on the grill"
• A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
• The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
• On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
• A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
• A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
• Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
• A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
• A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
• The front teeth regarded collectively.
• Deliberate misspelling of girl.
• Harm.

Verb

Verb Forms: grilled, grilling, grills

• To cook food by direct heat; to question intensely.
• cook over a grill
  • "grill the sausages"
• examine thoroughly
  • "the student was grilled for two hours on the subject of phonology"
• To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.
• To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
• To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.
• To feel very hot; to swelter.
• To stamp or mark with a grill.
• To stare at.
• To make angry; provoke; offend, incite.
• To terrify; make tremble.
• To tremble; shiver.
• To snarl; snap.

Adj

• Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

Examples

• a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills
• I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.
• r u a grill?
• The opponent tried to grill him about his word choice, but it was valid.
• The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.
• These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.
• Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?

Synonyms

grille, grillroom, grillwork, abet, actuate, affright, affront, aggravate, alarm, anger, antagonize, appall, awrath, bring about, burn up, cheer, cheese off, cook, cross, dismay, do, drive, egg on, embitter, encourage, engender, envenom, evoke, excite, foment, fray, frighten, fronts, gall, get, get one's back up, get someone's Irish up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get to, give someone the shits, goad, golds, grill, harrow, honk off, horrify, ignite, impel, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, invoke, lash, madden, make angry, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, make someone's blood run cold, motivate, motive, move, nark, obligate, oblige, offend, outrage, palpitate, petrify, piss off, promote, prompt, provoke, push, put out, put someone's back up, quiver, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rankle, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rouse, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, scare, scare straight, scare the bejeebers out of, scare the pants off of, send, set off, set up someone's birse, shudder, spark off, spook, spur, spur on, steam, stimulate, sting, stir, stir up, stoke, tempt, terrify, terrorize, tick off, urge, whet, whip up

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