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means A cookout or style of cooking meat low and slow over smoke and fire — the word covers the method, the meal, and the social event built around it.

from Shortened from barbecue, which English borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, itself taken from a word used by Caribbean peoples (likely Taíno) for a raised wooden frame for sleeping or for slow-cooking meat over a fire. The folk tale that it comes from French 'barbe à queue' (beard to tail) is a cute myth, not the real history — the Caribbean origin is the one etymologists back.