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What's "roast" mean?

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Rebecca

Here, "roast" is an informal term for making jokes about someone in a way that's slightly insulting. In general, "roast" is the act of cooking something in an oven, usually meat. Ex: She roasted you so badly that your face went red from anger. Ex: I'm going to make roast chicken for dinner!

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