tandoori

adj

1. (not-comparable)Cooked in a tandoor.

noun

1. A dish that was cooked in a tandoor.
2. (UK, informal)A curry meal.

   “Call me when you get in and invite me out for a tandoori — Oh, and by the way, Jude e-mailed to say she's still having a ball with Marcus and everything's as sweet as a nut.”

   “Having a relaxing stress-free pint with my fiancée, going for a tandoori afterwards and hoping that she'll come back to my place for B and B, or who knows, maybe even invite me to hers.'”

   “'Let's go down the Shahbag for a tandoori!'”

3. (UK, informal)An Indian restaurant, especially one with a tandoor.

   “He's done those lads at a tandoori when they started giving him grief.”

   “Now, of course, there is a tandoori in every high street (and a balti and a Thai takeaway as well); proving, if proof were needed, that people's tastes even in conservative Britain are nothing like so conservative as is often supposed.”

   “A sandwich at three, and dinner out at a tandoori this evening.”