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bake off

verb 5
bake-off noun 2
bake-off adjective 1
forms 4

verb5

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To cook (something) by baking.
- When you finish baking off the first batch, start the second.
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To be cooked by baking.
- The cake will finish baking off in an hour.
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To cook off or reduce by baking.
- Six pounds of batter will bake off to three pounds of prepared product.
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(informal, slang) To relish one’s leisure, to hang around idly or possibly with recreational substances.
- Learned a major lesson every time I took a major loss Times that I could have been making money, but I was baking off — 2022
(slang) To engage in the preparation of crack cocaine.

bake-off noun2

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A cooking contest, especially one where competition is head-to-head, not limited to preparing food involving baking.
- The winner of the Pillsbury bake-off is obviously a very good cook and is respected for it.
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(slang) An occasion of the preparation of crack cocaine.
- Got weapons and rocks in the whip, I need to make prof Youngest chef in the game, throw your bands on the stove and we can have a bake-off — 2019

bake-off adjective1

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Prepared in advance, to be finished off by baking.
- In its most speeded-up form, bake-off bread might need only a few minutes in the oven to give it a crust and some colour. — 2004

forms

baked off · baking off · bakes off · bake-offs

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