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grill

UK/ɡɹɪl/ US/ˈɡrɪl/ fairly common informal uk us
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

1.

a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill

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2.

a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate

  • “he cooked hamburgers on the grill”
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verb

1.

cook over a grill

  • “grill the sausages”

Origin

From Middle English grillen (“to anger, provoke”), from Old English grillan, griellan (“to annoy, vex, offend”), from Proto-West Germanic *gralljan (“to shout, make angry”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian grulje (“to make angry”), Dutch grillen (“to shudder, shiver”), Low German vergrellen (“to anger, provoke”), German grollen (“to rumble”) and perhaps also with French grouiller (“to swarm”).

Phrases

  • bacon grill
  • bar and grill
  • get on someone's grill
  • get up in someone's grill
  • grill guard
  • grill up
  • mixed grill

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