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spit roast

spit roast noun: the technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire. Also the alternative form of spit-roast.

spit roast: the technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and...
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Noun

spit roast (plural spit roasts)

  1. The technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire.
    • We're having a hog spit roast at the weekend.
  2. (slang, vulgar) A sex position wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

Also used as

spit roast is also the alternative form of spit-roast.

Forms of spit roast

Noun
pluralspit roasts
alternative formspitroast
Verb
third-person singular presentspit roasts
present participlespit roasting
past participlespit roasted
pastspit roasted

Questions about spit roast

What does spit roast mean?
Spit roast means the technique of roasting an animal over a fire, where the cook pokes a rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire.
What part of speech is spit roast?
Spit roast is a noun.
What is the plural of spit roast?
The plural of spit roast is spit roasts.

Words near spit roast in the dictionary

  1. spit masks
  2. spit nails
  3. spit of land
  4. spit on
  5. spit out
  6. spit roast
  7. spit roasted
  8. spit roaster
  9. spit roasters
  10. spit roasting
  11. spit roasts

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