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barbecue
noun- a self-immolation US
The term enjoyed a brief and gruesome popularity in the early 1960s. - I am not saying that we should accept Mme. Nhu’s statements at face value. Nor that we should forgive her for using that unfortunate language. If she had not referred to the Buddhist suicides as “monk barbecues,” Americans would surely have greeted her — San Francisco News Call-Bulletin, p. 6, 12 October 1963
- the burning of a prisoner locked in a cell US
- — William K. Bentley and James M. Corbett, Prison Slang, p. 89, 1992
- a napalm bombing US, 1968
- — J. E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, p. 91, 1994
- radiation treatment US
Medical slang. - — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 134, 1994
- a fatal overdose of narcotics US
- — Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, p. 19, 1992
- an attractive girl or woman US, 1938
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 7, 1945
- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 235, 1948: “A glossary of Harlemisms”
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