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roast verb- (from an active perspective) to have sex with someone UK
- I come straight away, but I think that’s a blessing in disguise. If I’d’ve roasted her for a bit the poor aul’ girl’d’ve had a heart attack. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 90, 2002
- to criticise someone or something severely; to be mercilessly disparaging of someone or something; to denounce someone UK, 1782
- Leonard Bernstein–who had hired white waiters to serve at his fundraising party for the Black Panthers–was famously roasted on the pyre of “radical chic.” — The Guardian, 12 February 1988
- to earn money after hours, especially when doing so with some degree of dishonesty JAMAICA, 1990
- — Peter Patrick, Some Recent Jamaican Creole Words, 2003
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