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spit-roast

spit-roast verb: to roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).

Verb

spit-roast (third-person singular simple present spit-roasts, present participle spit-roasting, simple past and past participle spit-roasted)

  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
  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 of spit-roast

third-person singular presentspit-roasts
present participlespit-roasting
past participlespit-roasted
pastspit-roasted
alternative formspit roast
alternative formspitroast

Words formed from spit-roast

Questions about spit-roast

What does spit-roast mean?
Spit-roast means to roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).
What part of speech is spit-roast?
Spit-roast is a verb.
What is the past tense of spit-roast?
The past tense of spit-roast is spit-roasted.

Words near spit-roast in the dictionary

  1. spit-cups
  2. spit-fire
  3. spit-fires
  4. spit-poison
  5. spit-poisons
  6. spit-roast
  7. spit-roasted
  8. spit-roaster
  9. spit-roasters
  10. spit-roasting
  11. spit-roastings

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