Meaning

(cooking) A person who prepares food..

Definitions by Sense

1. (cooking) A person who prepares food.
2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
3. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4. (metalworking, construction) 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.
6. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
7. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
8. (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

Example Sentences

I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.

Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song “Purple Haze.”

Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.

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.

I'm cooking bangers and mash.

He's in the kitchen, cooking.

Word Forms

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