cook

noun cooks

1. A person who prepares food. I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

   Similar: cooker

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. slang One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
6. slang A 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.

verb cooks · cooking · cooked · cooken · cook

1. ambitransitive 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.
2. specifically, transitive 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,
3. intransitive To undergo cooking. The dinner is cooking on the stove.
4. transitive 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. figuratively, intransitive 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.

   Similar: bake, stew

6. slang, transitive 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.
7. slang, transitive To execute by electric chair.

   Similar: fry

8. slang, transitive 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.

   Similar: cook off

9. To concoct or prepare. My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
10. slang, transitive To 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...
11. intransitive, slang To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) Watch this band: they cook!
12. intransitive, slang To play music vigorously. On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
13. humorous, intransitive, slang 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!
14. humorous, intransitive, 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.
15. Australia, derogatory, humorous, intransitive, slang To develop insane or fringe ideas. The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
16. slang, transitive To defeat or humiliate. He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
17. slang, transitive To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation. This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.

Similar: cook, do

verb cooks · cooking · cooked

1. intransitive, obsolete, rare To make the noise of the cuckoo. Constant cuckoos cook on every side.

Similar: cook, do

verb cooks · cooking · cooked

1. UK, dialectal, obsolete To throw. Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou.

   Similar: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave

Similar: cook, do

proper noun Cooks · Cooke · Coke

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.
2. countable, uncountable A township in Sac County, Iowa.
3. countable, uncountable A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
4. countable, uncountable A minor city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
5. countable, uncountable A village in Johnson County, Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
7. countable, uncountable A township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
8. countable, uncountable A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
9. countable, uncountable A local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Cook.
10. countable, uncountable A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
11. countable, uncountable A river in Westland district, West Coast, New Zealand.

    Similar: Weheka

12. countable, uncountable An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.