cook

Plural: cooks

Noun

someone who cooks food
English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
A person who prepares food.
The head cook of a manor house.
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

Verb

Verb Forms: cooked, cooking, cooks

To prepare food by applying heat; to bake or boil.
prepare a hot meal
- "My husband doesn't cook"
prepare for eating by applying heat
- "Cook me dinner, please"
transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
tamper, with the purpose of deception
- "cook the books"
transform by heating
- "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
To smelt.
To be cooked.
To be uncomfortably hot.
To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
To execute by electric chair.
To hold on to 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.)
To play music vigorously.
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
To develop insane or fringe ideas.
To defeat or humiliate.
To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
To throw.

Examples

Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
He's in the kitchen, cooking.
Hol' up, let that boy cook!
I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
I tried to cook up a good strategy to maximize my double letter scores.
I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
I'm cooking bangers and mash.
Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
The dinner is cooking on the stove.
The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.
Watch this band: they cook!
We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.
You didn't have to cook him like that!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English cook, from Old English cōc (“a cook”), from Latin cocus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- (“to cook, become ripe”).
Cognate with Low German kokk, Dutch kok, German Koch, Danish kok, Norwegian kokk, Swedish kock, Icelandic kokkur (“cook”). Also compare Proto-West Germanic *kokōn (“to cook”).

Synonyms

Captain Cook, Captain James Cook, fake, falsify, fix, fudge, James Cook, make, manipulate, misrepresent, prepare, ready, wangle, bake, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, cook off, cooker, dash, do, dump, feck, fling, fry, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, skew, slight, sling, stew, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing

Scrabble Score: 10

cook: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cook: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cook: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

cook: valid Words With Friends Word