cooks
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/kʊks/
English
Definitions
noun
- A person who prepares food.“I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.”
- The head cook of a manor house
- The degree or quality of cookedness of food
- One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.“Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.”
verb
- To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.“I'm cooking bangers and mash.”
- To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.“He's in the kitchen, cooking.”
- To be cooked.“The dinner is cooking on the stove.”
- To be uncomfortably hot.“Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.”
verb
- To make the noise of the cuckoo.
verb
- To throw.
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Synonyms
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