rib roast

noun

: a cut of meat containing the large piece that lies along the outer side of the rib see beef illustration

Examples of rib roast in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

That’s a cook's goal when preparing a standing beef rib roast, also known as prime rib, for the holidays. —Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024

Beef roasts such as this can go by different names including standing rib roast, prime rib roast or rib roast. —Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024

Zupan's Markets Zupan's gives you two options — a prime rib roast with scalloped potatoes and other fixings or a turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and stuffing. —Kale Williams, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024

Cookware This is something for the big-splashy-meal cook in your life—the king of the standing rib roast, the empress of the whole pig on a spit, the generalissimo of the hundred-person clam bake. —Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1627, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rib roast

• almost
• engrossed
• foremost
• hindmost
• impost
• inmost
• lamppost
• leftmost
• necrosed
• outpost
• pancoast
• rightmost