"spit roast" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-spit roast.ogg [Australia] Forms: spit roasts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Cooking, Sex Related terms: rotisserie Translations (cooking technique): печене на шиш (pečene na šiš) (Bulgarian), Spießgrillen [neuter] (German), Spießbraten [masculine] (German), σούβλα (soúvla) [feminine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-spit_roast-en-noun-o7lD1Bnl Disambiguation of Cooking: 45 12 24 19 Disambiguation of Sex: 14 37 10 38 Disambiguation of 'cooking technique': 91 9
  2. (vulgar, slang) A sexual practice whereby two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, from different ends. Tags: slang, vulgar Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-spit_roast-en-noun-pcX4ec5L Disambiguation of Sex: 14 37 10 38 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 50 4 9 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 62 7 11 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 25 55 11 9

Verb

Audio: En-au-spit roast.ogg [Australia] Forms: spit roasts [present, singular, third-person], spit roasting [participle, present], spit roasted [participle, past], spit roasted [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-spit_roast-en-verb-j2FQ1JS1 Disambiguation of Sex: 14 37 10 38
  2. To engage in the sexual practice called a spit roast. Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-spit_roast-en-verb-K~LQO3aY Disambiguation of Sex: 14 37 10 38

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