roasts

Noun

roast (plural roasts)

1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted.
   • Near-synonym: joint

   Synonyms:

   joint

2. A meal consisting of roast foods.
   • Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
   • Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
   • “He ain’t no good!” With this she steps back to the table where Miss Montague has just tired of the Cuban, slips her arms about that seraph’s waist, and says: “Your Frank is in Washington and my Jasper has just given me a roast. Reckon we’ll both have to be bachelor girls to-night.”1899, Archibald Clavering Gunter, M.S. Bradford, Special, page 58
5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
6. (Canada, US) A social event at which food is roasted and eaten.
   • On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.

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