cook

1. 1

   A person who prepares food.

   • I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
2. 2

   The head cook of a manor house.

3. 3

   The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

4. 4

   The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.

5. 5

   One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.slang

   • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
6. 6

   A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.slang

   • Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
7. 7

   A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

8. 8

   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.

1. 1

   To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.ambitransitive

   • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
   • He's in the kitchen, cooking.
2. 2

   To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.specificallytransitive

   • You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this
3. 3

   To undergo cooking.intransitive

   • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
4. 4

   To smelt.transitive

   • 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
5. 5

   To be uncomfortably hot.figurativelyintransitive

   • Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
6. 6

   To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.slangtransitive

   • You would die from what we might call "extremely acute radiation poisoning" – that is, you would be cooked.
   • "What's coming?" "Dunno yet. Cindy! Active scanning! Pulse hard, but don't cook any friendlies." "We have sensors that can cook people?" "Another reason why warship combat is not an indoor sport."
7. 7

   To execute by electric chair.slangtransitive

8. 8

   To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.slangtransitive

   • I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
9. 9

   To concoct or prepare.

   • My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
   • Jesse, we need to cook.
10. 10

    To tamper with or alter; to cook up.slangtransitive

    • 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.

syn. cook · do

1. 1

   To make the noise of the cuckoo.intransitiveobsoleterare

   • Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

syn. cook · do

1. 1

   To throw.UKdialectalobsolete

   • Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.

syn. cook · do