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cook⋅ing

  [kook-ing]
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–noun
1. the act of a person or thing that cooks.
2. the art or practice of preparing food; cookery.
–adjective
3. used in preparing foods: a cooking utensil.
4. fit to eat when cooked (distinguished from eating ): cooking apples.
Origin:
1635–45; cook 1 + -ing 1 , -ing 2
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cook

1  [kook]
–verb (used with object)
1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
3. Slang. to ruin; spoil.
4. Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
–verb (used without object)
5. to prepare food by the use of heat.
6. (of food) to undergo cooking.
7. Slang.
a. to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
b. to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!
c. to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.
d. to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
–noun
8. a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
—Verb phrases
9. cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
10. cook up, Informal.
a. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.
b. to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
—Idioms
11. cook one's goose. goose (def. 11).
12. cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME cok(e), OE cōc (cf. ON kokkr, G Koch, D kok) < L cocus, coquus, deriv. of coquere to cook; akin to Gk péptein (see peptic ); (v.) late ME coken, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
cook⋅a⋅ble, adjective
cookless, adjective

cook

2  [kook, kook]
–verb (used without object) Scot.
to hide, esp. outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.
Origin:
1780–90; perh. b. ME couche bend, stoop (see couch ) and ME croke bend, stoop (see crooked )
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cook   (kŏŏk)   
v.   cooked, cook·ing, cooks

v.   tr.
  1. To prepare (food) for eating by applying heat.
  2. To prepare or treat by heating: slowly cooked the medicinal mixture.
  3. Slang To alter or falsify so as to make a more favorable impression; doctor: disreputable accountants who were paid to cook the firm's books.
v.   intr.
  1. To prepare food for eating by applying heat.
  2. To undergo application of heat especially for the purpose of later ingestion.
  3. Slang To happen, develop, or take place: What's cooking in town?
  4. Slang To proceed or perform very well: The band really got cooking after midnight.
n.  A person who prepares food for eating.
Phrasal Verb(s):
cook up Informal To fabricate; concoct: cook up an excuse.

Idiom(s):
cook (one's) goose Slang To ruin one's chances: The speeding ticket cooked his goose with his father. Her goose was cooked when she was caught cheating on the test.

[Middle English coken, from coke, cook, from Old English cōc, from Vulgar Latin *cōcus, from Latin cocus, coquus, from coquere, to cook; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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