Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spit-roast

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: spit-roast
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).

Transitive verb

verb

To engage in the sexual practice wherein two people penetrate a single sexual partner at the same time, one orally and the other vaginally or anally.

Slang; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Even the men participated when we spit-roasted a whole lamb for Greek Easter in the American-Greek couple’s backyard."
"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."
"That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers."

Usage

Inflected Forms

spit-roasts (present, singular) spit-roasting (participle, present) spit-roasted (participle, past) spit-roasted (past) spit roast (alternative) spitroast (alternative)

Phrases

spit-roaster spit-roasting spit roast

Frequently Paired Words

spit roast

Questions

What does spit-roast mean?: To roast (meat) on a spit (“metal or wooden rod”).

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