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cooks

/kʊks/

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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."
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

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."
To execute by electric chair.
To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
To concoct or prepare.
To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
"Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!"
To play music vigorously.
"On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!"

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