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spit-roast

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See also: spit roast and spitroast

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spit-roast (third-person singular simple present spit-roasts, present participle spit-roasting, simple past and past participle spit-roasted)

  1. To roast (meat) on a spit.
    • 1999, Betty Fussell, “Hot Grills”, in My Kitchen Wars, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 127:
      Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard.
    • 2010, Mariana de Saint Phalle, “Letter #5: Late Summer, 1984”, in Mimi Allen, editor, Mariana’s Letters: Writings & Recipes, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 53:
      Last summer we spit-roasted a baby lamb (slaughtered the day before) over a birch fire at our camp in the Rangeley Lake region of Maine.
    • 2015 May, Chris Fischer with Catherine Young, “High Summer”, in The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha’s Vineyard, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 225–226:
      That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.
  2. To engage in the sexual practice whereby two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

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