Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A portable charcoal-burning brazier with a grill, used chiefly for cooking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Japan, a pan or box in which charcoal is kept burning for the purpose of warming the hands or heating an apartment; a brazier.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A portable
brazier , powered bycharcoal , used forcooking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cook over a hibachi grill
- noun a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Beside the hibachi was a sheet of newspaper with a neat arrangement of little piles of unidentifiable flotsam on it.
Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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Japanese hug to themselves and hang over smaller stoves, called hibachi, metal vessels containing a handful of smouldering charcoal.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan John Finnemore
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A number of the fish, meat and poultry dishes - including a rib-eye steak for $19.95 and twin lobster tails at $39.95 - can be prepared either teriyaki-style or on the hibachi, which is back in the kitchen rather than on the table.
NYT > Home Page By SCOTT VEALE 2011
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Judging from my experience in the dining room and at the sushi bar I did not have the opportunity to try the so-called hibachi room, which operates in the old Benihana steak-house style, Lucky Buddha is not to be missed.
NYT > Home Page By M. H. REED 2011
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They will all continue to have three areas designated for hibachi, which is cooked by a chef right on each table; a sushi bar; and lots of tables at which patrons can dine on meals prepared in the kitchen.
Examiner BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer 2008
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` ` He really was screaming it this morning in the shootaround, so 'hibachi' it is.
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The 'hibachi' grill didn't get turned on tonight, '' said Arenas, referring to the word he sometimes yells when taking a shot.
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The "hibachi" is the only stove, except the cook-stove, that they have in Japanese houses.
The Japanese Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901
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Sanders-Clyde Elementary eighth-grader Kalyn Lewis edged out her younger sister, Amy, for the title of district spelling champion after correctly spelling "hibachi," which her sixth-grade sister misspelled, and "canine."
Stories: Local News 2010
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For me a hibachi will always be a small cast iron charcoal barbecue.
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