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1.nounA person who prepares food."I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."
2.nounThe head cook of a manor house
3.nounThe degree or quality of cookedness of food
4.nounOne who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth."Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
5.nounA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
6.nounA fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
7.verbTo prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients."I'm cooking bangers and mash."
8.verbTo prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients."He's in the kitchen, cooking."
9.verbTo be cooked."The dinner is cooking on the stove."
10.verbTo be uncomfortably hot."Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there."
11.verbTo execute by electric chair.
12.verbTo hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
13.verbTo concoct or prepare.
14.verbTo tamper with or alter; to cook up.
15.verbTo play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)"Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"
16.verbTo play music vigorously."On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"
17.verbTo make the noise of the cuckoo.
18.verbTo throw.