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roast

/ɹoʊst/ sustantivo C2

En español: carne asada, asado, brindis cómico, vejamen

  1. A piece of meat suited to roasting; meat that has been roasted. · Near-synonym: joint· Serve the roast with gravy and mashed potatoes.
  2. A meal consisting of roast foods. · Come over this weekend for Sunday roast.
  3. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted. · Dark roast means that the coffee bean has been roasted to a higher temperature and for a longer period of time than in light roast.
  4. An instance of being severely admonished, criticized, roasted.
  5. A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
  6. A social event at which food is roasted and eaten. (US) · On Memorial Day we hosted a wiener roast in the backyard.
  7. A creative insult as a response to something someone said. (slang)

Plural roasts

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You can roast it by the fire, since your tastes are so peculiar that you prefer cooked food, and then you will have a very good breakfast.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 37 · B2
However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 6 · B2
Pinkney and this veal roast.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 4 · C1
Then, in spite of the failure of his first search, he began a second, after having told Gaetano to roast one of the two kids.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 345 · C1

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