kabob
noun/kɪˈbæb/
/kɪˈbɑːb/
(North American English) (also kebab British and North American English)
(also shish kebab especially in North American English)
- small pieces of meat and vegetable cooked on a wooden or metal stickTopics Foodb2Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Arabic kabāb, partly via Urdu, Persian, and Turkish.
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