barbeque

See also: bar-be-que

English

Noun

barbeque (countable and uncountable, plural barbeques)

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of barbecue (“apparatus for grilling; cookout (event); meat cooked by barbecuing”)
- 2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28:
  She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food, from slow-roasted barbeque beef sandwiches at the Young Life booth to Bavarian bratwurst at the Mount Baker Barbershop Singers’ grill.
- 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 152:
  ‘This will be slaughtered for barbeque meat and beef stew on Sunday.’

Verb

barbeque (third-person singular simple present barbeques, present participle barbequing or barbequeing, simple past and past participle barbequed)

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of barbecue
- 2013, Kenneth Eade, chapter 22, in An Involuntary Spy, New York, N.Y.: Times Square Publishing, →ISBN, page 92:
  When they arrived, Masha and Natasha joined the other girls in the kitchen, and Pasha scurried Seth out into the great outdoors with the men to barbeque shashliki, a delicious Russian marinated meat.

References

Paul Brians (2009) “barbecue”, in Common Errors in English Usage, 2nd edition, Wilsonville, Or.: William, James & Company, →ISBN.