Sekirov Dictionary

cook

/kʊk/

verb 19
noun 8
forms 7
phrases 8

verb19

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to make food ready to eat, usually by using heat
- I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking.
To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
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To undergo cooking.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
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To concoct or prepare.
- My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
- Jesse, we need to cook.
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(slang) To defeat or humiliate.
- He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
- You didn't have to cook him like that!
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(slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.
- This assignment is cooking me big time.
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(slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
- Hol' up, let that boy cook!
- OK, who let him cook?
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(slang) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.
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(slang, disapproving) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
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(slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- So far as Pridger was concerned the game was up. He had cooked the buying, he had cooked the selling, he had systematically pillaged the stock. — 1927
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(figurative) To be uncomfortably hot.
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
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(slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked. — 2014
(slang) To execute by electric chair.
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(slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- Watch this band: they cook!
- Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
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(slang) To play music vigorously.
- On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
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(slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
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To smelt.
- Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve — 2011
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(no longer used, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- Constant cuckoos cook on every side. — 1599
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(dialect, no longer used) To throw.
- Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou. — 1787

noun8

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A person who prepares food.
- I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
The head cook of a manor house.
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(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
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(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook. — 2011
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
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An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- The original endgame was one file to the right (Kf1, Kb5 etc.). But there is a cook after 1. c6 dxc6 2. d6 cxd6 3. h4 gxh3 e.p. 4. gxh3 Ka4! 5. h4 b5. My version eliminates the cook. — 2003
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.

forms

cooked · cookt · cooken · cooking · cooketh · cooks · cookest

Phrases with cook

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