kebab
noun/kɪˈbæb/
Frequency rank: #12,663 most common English word
Meaning
a dish of pieces of meat (and sometimes vegetables) cooked on a skewer or spit.
Example sentence
He ordered kebab from the street vendor and ate it while walking.
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