Definitions for grill

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grill grill

Spelling: [gril]

IPA: /grɪl/

Grill is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in grill (gillr).

Definitions for grill

noun

1. a grated utensil for broiling meat, fish, vegetables, etc., over a fire; gridiron.
2. a dish of grilled meat, fish, etc. Compare mixed grill.
3. grillroom.
4. Philately. a group of small pyramidal marks, embossed or impressed in parallel rows on certain U.S. and Peruvian stamps of the late 19th century to prevent erasure of cancellation marks.
5. grille.
6. a grating or openwork barrier, as for a gate, usually of metal and often of decorative design.
7. an opening, usually covered by grillwork, for admitting air to cool the engine of an automobile or the like; radiator grille.
8. any of various perforated screens, sheets, etc., used to cover something, as on a radio for protecting the amplifier or in cryptography for coding purposes.
9. a ticket window covered by a grating.
10. Court Tennis. a square-shaped winning opening on the hazard side of the court. Compare dedans (def 1), winning gallery.

verb (used with object)

1. to broil on a gridiron or other apparatus over or before a fire.
2. to subject to severe and persistent cross-examination or questioning.
3. to torment with heat.
4. to mark with a series of parallel bars like those of a grill.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo broiling.

Origin of grill

1660-70; 1890-95 for def 6; French gril gridiron ≪ Latin crātīculum, creātīculō, diminutive of crātis wickerwork, hurdle. See grille

Examples for grill

M—— M—— then held her close to the grill and told me to see for myself.

He could stand on his head, yes, but it was unfair to grill her.

The air around the grill clouds with the steam of sizzling onions.

Ay, or dropped you with the Tongo chiefs, who'd grill you for breakfast?

He would row me about the service of the grill—something of that sort.

Also, Mary is dead now and her grill has probably been blown to smithereens.

Audra McDonald's amazing performance as Billie Holliday in 'Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and grill' must win her a Tony.

Called my friends Cindy and Gary and they came over and we put steaks on the grill and smoked cigars and got drunk.

By the time they had reached dessert, the grill room was deserted.

McDonald channeled us into Holiday's last year of life, in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and grill.