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kebab noun

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Definition

a dish consisting of small pieces of meat and vegetables that have been put on a long thin stick or metal rod and cooked together

(Definition of kebab noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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