roast

10 definitions • 9 examples

to cook food in an oven or over a fire:

Just roast the chicken in the oven and baste it in oil and lemon.

figurative We lay on the beach and roasted (= got very hot) in the Mediterranean sun.

to heat nuts or coffee beans so that they become drier and browner

to criticize severely or speak angrily to someone:

Critics roasted him for exploiting racial stereotypes.

to humorously criticize and make jokes about a famous person at a public event honouring that person, as a part of the event:

He's known for roasting big-name celebrities on his Comedy Central shows.

Roast meat or vegetables have been cooked in an oven or over a fire:

roast beef/chicken/potatoes

roasted red pepper sauce

a large piece of roasted meat

an event where a famous person has jokes and humorous criticisms made about them, for entertainment:

There will be a roast hosted by Bill Maher to mark Larry King's 50 years on radio and television.

to cook meat or other food by dry heat in an oven or over a fire

a large piece of meat cooked in an oven:

a beef roast

A roast is also an outside event at which food is cooked over a fire:

a lobster roast