Cooked

/kʊkt/ · adjective

Meaning

(of food) Prepared by cooking..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of food) Prepared by cooking.
2. (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
3. (of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
4. (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
5. (slang, chiefly predicative) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
6. (slang, especially Australia) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
7. Hungover.
8. Brain-damaged from drug use.

Example Sentences

Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.

Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.

[S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.

But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked.

If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked.

Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.

Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.

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• more cooked
• most cooked

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