1. cooking appliances with metal bars for cooking food over heat
2. metal gratings or bars, especially those covering windows or openings

1. cooks food on a grill over direct heat
2. questions someone intensely or aggressively
Usage: informal

Examples

• The restaurant has several outdoor grills for cooking burgers.
• Security grills covered all the ground-floor windows.
• Dad grills hamburgers every Sunday afternoon.
• She grills chicken breasts for about six minutes on each side.
• The detective grills the suspect for hours.
• The reporter grills the politician about the scandal.
• We bought new gas grills for the patio.
• The old building had decorative iron grills on the balconies.