Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COOK

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Definitions of COOK

1. To concoct or prepare.
2. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
4. (cooking) A person who prepares food.
5. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
6. (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
7. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
8. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
9. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
10. (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
11. (intransitive) To be cooked.
12. (transitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
13. (slang) To execute by electric chair.
14. (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
15. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
16. (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
17. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
18. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
19. (countable) A English surname from occupations for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.
20. A electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
21. (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous plan or course of action; to be successful.
22. A placename:

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