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verb (used with object)
1.
to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
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to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
3.
Slang. to ruin; spoil.
4.
Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
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verb (used without object)
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to prepare food by the use of heat.
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(of food) to undergo cooking.
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Slang.
a.
to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
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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!
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to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.
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to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
noun
Verb phrases8.
a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
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.
Idiomscook 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.
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cook one's goose. goose (def. 11).
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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:
before 1000; (noun) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) < Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see peptic); (v.) late Middle English coken, derivative of the noun
before 1000; (noun) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) < Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see peptic); (v.) late Middle English coken, derivative of the noun
Related forms
cook·a·ble, adjective
cook·less, adjective
un·cook·a·ble, adjective
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noun
1.
Frederick Albert, 1865–1940, U.S. physician and polar explorer.
3.
Captain James, 1728–79, English navigator and explorer in the S Pacific, Antarctic Ocean, and along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.
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Sir Joseph, 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1913–14.
5.
Mount. Also called Aorangi. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 feet (3764 meters).
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Word Origin & History
cook
O.E. coc, from V.L. cocus "cook," from L. coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE base *pekw- "to cook" (cf. Oscan popina "kitchen," Skt. pakvah "cooked," Gk. peptein, Lith. kepti "to bake, roast," O.C.S. pecenu "roasted"). The noun was first; Gmc.
EXPAND languages had no one native term for all types of cooking. The verb is first attested late 14c.; the figurative sense of "to manipulate, falsify, doctor" is from 1630s. To cook with gas is 1930s jive talk.
COLLAPSE
"There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage." [Gascoigne, 1575]Related: Cooker (a type of stove, 1884); cookery (1390s); cooking (1640s).
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