Cook

Quick meaning: Cook is a noun meaning (cooking) A person who prepares food.

Meaning

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

More Meanings

1. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
2. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
3. (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
4. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
5. (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
6. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
7. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Example Sentences

I'm cooking bangers and mash.

He's in the kitchen, cooking.

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

Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

Word Forms

• cooks
• cooking
• cooked
• cooken
• cookest
• cookedst
• cooketh

Synonyms for cook

Depending on context, synonyms include do, bake, stew, fry, cook off, fling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fudge, fix, manipulate, make, prepare, wangle.

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