kebab
Plural: kebabs
Noun
- A dish of pieces of meat and vegetables grilled on a skewer.
- cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
- A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.
- 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.
- A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.
- A restaurant that sells kebabs
- The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.
- A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.
- The vulva.
- A menu icon of three vertical dots.
Verb
- To roast in the style of a kebab.
- To stab or skewer.
Examples
- Let's go to the kebab after the club.
- Placing KEBAB on the board, she imagined a delicious meal as she earned points.
Origin / Etymology
From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.
Synonyms
kabob, shish kebab, chef, chib, ching, chive, empierce, enthrill, fix, foin, gore, gride, impale, jab, job, juke, kebab, knifecrime, lancinate, pierce, pigstick, pink, poach, prick, puncture, run through, shank, shiv, spear, speet, splash, stab, stake, stick, stob, stog, thrust, transfix, transpierce, yerk
Scrabble Score: 13
kebab: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordkebab: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
kebab: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary