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1. (cooking) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
   "roast the turkey"
    
2. [informal] Subject to laughter or ridicule
   "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday";
   - ridicule, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib [informal], make fun, poke fun
    
3. [informal] Strongly criticize
   - slate [Brit, informal], tear to shreds [informal], slam [informal], burn [informal]

1. A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
   - joint
    
2. [informal] Negative criticism
   - knock

1. (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
   - roasted

Derived forms: roasting, roasted, roasts

See also: cooked

Type of: bemock, cook, crit [informal], criticism, critique, cut, cut of meat, mock

Encyclopedia: Roast