cook

nounverbverbverbcommon in dialogue

//kʊk//
//kuːk//

A person who prepares food.

noun

1
A person who prepares food.
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
2
The head cook of a manor house.
3
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4
The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
5
slangOne 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.”
6
slangA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.
7
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
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.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Italic *kʷekʷō Latin *quoquō Latin coquō Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Old Latin -os Latin -us Latin coquus Vulgar Latin *cocusbor. Old English cōc Middle English cook English cook From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”). Cognates Cognate with Cimbrian khoch (“cook”), Dutch kok (“cook”), German Koch (“cook”), Luxembourgish Kach (“cook”), Danish kok (“cook”), Icelandic kokkur (“cook”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kokk (“cook”), Swedish kock (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”) (whence North Frisian kööge, kööki (“to cook, boil”), West Frisian koaitsje (“to cook”), Cimbrian khochan, khòchan (“to cook”), Dutch koken (“to cook”), German kochen (“to cook”), Limburgish kaoke, kauche (“to cook”), Luxembourgish kachen (“to cook”), Vilamovian kocha, koha (“to cook”), Yiddish קאָכן (kokhn, “to cook”)), from Late Latin cocō (“to cook”).

verb

1
To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
I'm cooking bangers and mash.
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
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.
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 version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
3
To undergo cooking.
The dinner is cooking on the stove.
4
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
5
figurativeTo be uncomfortably hot.
Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
6
slangTo 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."
7
slangTo execute by electric chair.
8
slangTo 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.
9
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.
10
slangTo tamper with or alter; to cook up.
They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different, that there is no citizen, who has an eye to the public good, who can leave the coffee-house with peace of mind...
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.
11
slangTo 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.”
12
slangTo 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.
13
slangTo 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?
14
slangTo 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). 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.
My bar was built by Frazier, Gary Manson, Robert Feck, Jeff Picoli — that's who built my bar. When I hired those people, that's when my bar started cookin'. 'Cause Frazier gets along with anybody — he has a magnetic personality, and he can make the worst piece of shit feel like king for a day.
Asensio as AMF might just be the truth man. Bro is cooking and now he has added a goal to top it all off.
WAIT YOU'RE ACTUALLY COOKING RN. Emberwake ring. Quick math says that's about 21% more damage than just using tawhoa. Ring also gives fire damage and ignite chance, which is great.
15
slangTo 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). To develop insane or fringe ideas.
The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
16
slangTo 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!
17
slangTo 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.

Etymology

verb

1
obsoleteTo make the noise of the cuckoo.
Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

Etymology

Imitative.

verb

1
obsoleteTo throw.
Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to chuck.

Forms

plural: cooks
past tense: cooked
past participle: cooked, cooken
present participle: cooking
third person singular: cooks

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