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cook

/kuːk/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A person who prepares food.
  2. The head cook of a manor house
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food
  4. One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  5. A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  6. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
  7. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  8. To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  9. To be cooked.
  10. To be uncomfortably hot.
  11. To execute by electric chair.
  12. To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  13. To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  14. To throw.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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