A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
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.
A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
From mid-17th century. Borrowed from Spanish barbacoa, from TaĆno barbakoa ("framework of sticks"), the raised wooden structure the natives used to either sleep on or cure meat. Originally . barbacoa.
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