The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BARBECUE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result BARBECUE
- Cube thrown in naked flame
- Sharp comment’s signal to pursue end of office party outside
- Happen to block line for drinks, we hear, in party
- Sounds like the dolls are lined up to cook burgers, say
- Naughty bear cub beginning to eat grilled meat
- Dolls waiting in line to be delivered a meal?
- Bear cub disrupted English party cooking food outdoors
- Grill composer missing the last prompt
- Where to get a burger, beer?
- Local worker stopped by copper gets a grilling
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The straight part
We know that "grilled meat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case grilled meat = barbecue.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BARBECUE mean?
BARBECUE noun- A fireplace or pit for grilling food, typically used outdoors and traditionally employing hot charcoal as the heating medium.
- A meal or event highlighted by food cooked in such an apparatus.
- Meat, especially pork or beef, which has been cooked in such an apparatus (i.e. smoked over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels) and then chopped up or shredded.
- A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- A floor on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
- A framework of sticks.
- To cook food on a barbecue; to smoke it over indirect heat from high-smoke fuels.
- To grill.