yakitori; grilled chicken skewers
Common Japanese dish of bite-sized chicken pieces grilled on skewers, often with tare sauce or salt. Can also include other meats or offal.
Want to go eat yakitori tonight?
The yakitori at this shop has delicious sauce.
grilled skewered bird (esp. sparrow)
Obsolete term; historically referred to grilled small birds like sparrows on skewers, before chicken became the standard.
In the past, yakitori referred to small birds like sparrows grilled on skewers.
failing to win a single hand in a half-game (mahjong)
Mahjong term; describes a player who wins no hands during a half-game (hanchan).
I ended up with zero wins this half-game.
I ate five skewers of yakitori.
I prefer my yakitori with salt rather than sauce.
I never won a hand today and ended up 'yakitori' for the whole game.