Definition of barbecues:
(n) :
A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
(n) :
A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
(n) :
Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
(v) :
(transitive, intransitive) To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke food over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
(v) :
(transitive, intransitive) To grill.
(v) :
(slang, somewhat derogatory, transitive) To kill or destroy using high heat or fire; to cook; to burn.