cookout
noun
cook·out
ˈku̇k-ˌau̇t 
: an outing at which a meal is cooked and served in the open
also
: the meal cooked
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Corn on the cob is pretty much required for a cookout, and eating is already going to get a bit messy when ribs are also on the menu.
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
These days, Zhu is there on his own, the kitchen has been refurbished, and a homemade cookout on the roof is as wild as the scene gets.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2025
About a dozen others were helping with a cookout at the Boys & Girls Club in Gary.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Summer weekends in America are good for lots of things: baseball games, cookouts, farmers’ markets, sipping a bev next to a lake.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
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Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2025
These days, Zhu is there on his own, the kitchen has been refurbished, and a homemade cookout on the roof is as wild as the scene gets.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2025
About a dozen others were helping with a cookout at the Boys & Girls Club in Gary.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2025
Summer weekends in America are good for lots of things: baseball games, cookouts, farmers’ markets, sipping a bev next to a lake.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for cookout
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cookout
noun
cook·out
ˈku̇k-ˌau̇t
: an outing at which a meal is cooked and served outdoors
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