spit roast

See also: spit-roast and spitroast

English

Rotisserie pork soon to be removed from the spit roast.

Pronunciation

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Noun

spit roast (plural spit roasts)

1. The technique of roasting an animal, such as a pig, over a fire, where the cook sticks a wooden/metal rod through the animal and sets the ends on two sticks to suspend the animal over the fire.

   We're having a hog spit roast at the weekend.

2. (vulgar, slang) A sexual practice whereby two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

Alternative forms

• spitroast

Translations

cooking technique

• Bulgarian: печене на шиш (pečene na šiš)
• German: Spießgrillen n, Spießbraten (de) m
• Greek: σούβλα (el) f (soúvla)
• Portuguese: espetar (pt)
• Russian: жарить на вертеле (žaritʹ na vertele)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• rotisserie

Verb

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

1. Alternative form of spit-roast.

Further reading

• “spit roast n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present