Définitions
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.NounThe member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
5.NounOne who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth."Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."
6.NounA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
7.NounA fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
8.NounAn unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
9.VerbTo prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients."I'm cooking bangers and mash.; He's in the kitchen, cooking."
10.VerbTo smelt.
11.VerbTo be cooked."The dinner is cooking on the stove."
12.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."
13.VerbTo kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
14.VerbTo execute by electric chair.
15.VerbTo 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."
16.VerbTo concoct or prepare."My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.; Jesse, we need to cook."
17.VerbTo tamper with or alter; to cook up.
18.VerbTo 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!"
19.VerbTo play music vigorously."On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"
20.VerbTo 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?; We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.; The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook."
21.VerbTo proceed with some advantageous course of action; to be successful."We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking."
22.VerbTo develop insane or fringe ideas."The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook."
23.VerbTo 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!"
24.VerbTo 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."
25.VerbTo make the noise of the cuckoo.
26.VerbTo throw.