kebab

noun

1. 1

   A dish usually made of cut meat roasted on a skewer or spit, especially one based on Middle Eastern or South Asian cuisine. A hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an upright skewer, usually mixed with fresh vegetables and sauces and served in flatbread, especially a doner kebab.

2. 2

   A dish usually made of cut meat roasted on a skewer or spit, especially one based on Middle Eastern or South Asian cuisine. A shish kebab or any other food on a skewer.

3. 3

   A dish usually made of cut meat roasted on a skewer or spit, especially one based on Middle Eastern or South Asian cuisine. A dish made from shaped minced meat, usually grilled on a skewer but sometimes formed into a patty and fried or baked.

   A kebab that is also popular in Iran and Afghanistan is shammi kebab - a disk-shaped patty resembling a hamburger made of spiced ground meat and chickpeas beaten until they are light and airy and lightly sautéed in a pan.

4. 4

   A restaurant that sells kebabs

   Let's go to the kebab after the club.

5. 5

   The outward growing portions of a shish kebab structure.

6. 6

   slangA Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.

7. 7

   slangThe vulva.

8. 8

   A menu icon of three vertical dots.

verb

1. 1

   To roast in the style of a kebab.

2. 2

   slangTo 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.

Forms

plural

kebabs

past tense

kebabbed

past participle

kebabbed

present participle

kebabbing

third person singular

kebabs