• IPA: /ɡɹɪl/

grill (plural grills)

1. A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

2. On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
3. (UK) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
4. (US) A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.

   I put some peppers and mushrooms on the grill to go with dinner.

5. Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.

   a packet of frozen cauliflower cheese grills

6. A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.

   These coupons will get you a discount at Johnny's Bar and Grill.

7. (colloquial) A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.

   Synonyms: fronts, golds

8. (colloquial, by extension) The front teeth regarded collectively.
9. (internet slang, humorous) Misspelling of girl

• French: grille
• German: Grill
• Italian: griglia
• Portuguese: grelha
• Russian: решётка

• French: calandre
• German: Grill
• Italian: calandra, mascherina
• Portuguese: grelha
• Spanish: rejilla

• French: gril, barbecue
• German: Grill
• Italian: bistecchiera, graticola, griglia
• Portuguese: grelha, grelhador
• Russian: гриль
• Spanish: rejilla, parrilla

grill (grills, present participle grilling; past and past participle grilled)

1. (transitive) To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue.

   Why don't we get together Saturday and grill some burgers?

2. (transitive, Australian, NZ, UK) To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – (US) broil, (cooking) salamander.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly.

   The police grilled him about his movements at the time of the crime.

4. (intransitive, informal) To feel very hot; to swelter.
5. (transitive) To stamp or mark with a grill.

• See also Thesaurus:cook

• French: griller
• German: grillen, grillieren (Switzerland)
• Italian: grigliare
• Portuguese: grelhar
• Russian: жа́рить
• Spanish: asar

• Spanish: gratinar

• Italian: mettere sulla graticola, torchiare

grill (grills, present participle grilling; past and past participle grilled)

1. (transitive, Scotland, US, obsolete) To make angry; provoke; incite.
2. (transitive, chiefly, Scotland, obsolete) To terrify; make tremble.
3. (intransitive, chiefly, Scotland, obsolete) To tremble; shiver.
4. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) To snarl; snap.

grill (comparative griller, superlative grillest)

1. (obsolete) Harsh, rough, severe; cruel.

grill (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Harm.