cook

Etymology

Definitions

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.

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   1. 4

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

   2. 5

      One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

      • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
      • By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
      • Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”
   3. 6

      A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

      • Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
   4. 7

      A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

   5. 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.
   6. 9

      To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

      • I'm cooking bangers and mash.
      • He's in the kitchen, cooking.
   7. 10

      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
   8. 11

      To be cooked.

      • The dinner is cooking on the stove.
   9. 12

      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.
   10. 13

       To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to…

       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.
       • "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."
   11. 14

       To execute by electric chair.

   12. 15

       To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost…

       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.
   13. 16

       To concoct or prepare.

       • My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
       • Jesse, we need to cook.
       • The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
   14. 17

       To tamper with or alter

       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.
   15. 18

       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!
       • This album is called Cookin’ at Miles’ request. He said, “After all, that’s what we did – came in and cooked.”
   16. 19

       To play music vigorously.

       • On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
       • The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.
   17. 20

       To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards…

       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?
   18. 21

       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!
   19. 22

       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.
   20. 23

       To make the noise of the cuckoo.

       • Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
   21. 24

       To throw.

       • Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.
   22. 25

       An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food.…

       An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.

   23. 26

       A placename

       A placename:

   24. 27

       An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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