shish kebab
noun/ˈʃɪʃ kɪbæb/
/ˈʃɪʃ kɪbɑːb/
(especially North American English) (also kebab British and North American English)
- small pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a wooden or metal stickTopics Foodc2Word Originfrom Turkish şiş kebap, from şiş ‘skewer’ + kebap ‘roast meat’.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
shish kebab