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Noun: cookout  'kûk,awt
Usage: N. Amer
  1. An informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors
    "We had a family cookout with burgers and hot dogs"
Verb: cook out  kûk awt
Usage: N. Amer
  1. (cooking) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
    "We cooked out in the forest";
    - barbeque, barbecue

Derived forms: cookouts, cooked out, cooks out, cooking out

Type of: grill, picnic

Encyclopedia: Cookout