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      cook
      noun
      (cooking) A person who prepares food.
      (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
      (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
      (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
      (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
      (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
      A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
      (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
      (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.
      A placename:
      A locale in the United States:
      A township in Sac County, Iowa.
      A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
      A minor city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
      A village in Johnson County, Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
      An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
      A township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
      A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
      A local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Cook.
      A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
      A river in Westland district, West Coast, New Zealand.
      An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
      verb
      (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
      (transitive, video games) To smelt.
      (intransitive) To be cooked.
      (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
      (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
      (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
      (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
      (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
      (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
      (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
      (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
      (intransitive, slang, humorous) 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).
      (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
      (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
      (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
      (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
      (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
      (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
      Roots
      coquocook- · Latin · cook, ripen
      Synonyms for cook
      kitchenmaidchefnbakevculinarianfrynbraisevpreparevroastnsimmervgriddlenstewnparboilv
      Words related to cook
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