spit roast

See also: spitroast

English

Rotisserie pork soon to be removed from the spit oven.

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.

Translations

cooking technique

• Bulgarian: печене на шиш (pečene na šiš)
• German: Spießgrillen n, Spießbraten (de) m
• Greek: σούβλα (el) f (soúvla)
• 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. To roast meat in this way.
2. To engage in the sexual practice called a spit roast.

Further reading

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