cook
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Is cook a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.Examples: "I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."Synonyms: cooker
2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
3. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Examples: "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.”"slang
5. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Examples: "Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook."slang
6. (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.Examples: "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."
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.Examples: "I'm cooking bangers and mash."; "He's in the kitchen, cooking."; "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."ambitransitive
2. (transitive, video games) To smelt.Examples: "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"transitive
3. (intransitive) To be cooked.Examples: "The dinner is cooking on the stove."intransitive
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.Examples: "Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."Synonyms: bake, stewfigurativelyintransitive
5. (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.Examples: "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.""slangtransitive
6. (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.Synonyms: fryslangtransitive
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.Examples: "Constant cuckoos cook on every side."intransitiveobsoleterare
verb (English)
1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.Examples: "Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou."Synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dashUKdialectalobsolete
name (English)
1. (countable) 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.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary