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cook off

verb cooks off · cooking off · cooked off

  1. literally To eliminate by cooking. You have to cook off the excess liquid.
  2. transitive To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
  3. US, transitive To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
  4. US, transitive As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
  5. transitive To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
  6. intransitive, of explosives To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
  7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off. Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.

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@misc{cook_off_2026,
  title = {cook off},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cook%20off},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}