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spit-roast en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).
    • Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard. 1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127:
    • Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine. 2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:
    • That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers. 2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226:
  2. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To engage in the sexual practice wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
spitroast alternative lexicographic
spit roast alternative lexicographic
spit-roasts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
spit-roasted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spit-roasted Tense=Past lexicographic
spit-roasting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

spit-roasting · spit-roaster

Relateds

spit roast