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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cook1 /kʊk/USA pronunciation v. - to prepare (food) by heat: [~ + object]Who's going to cook dinner tonight?[no object]I don't feel like cooking.
- (of food) to undergo cooking:[no object]The rice is cooking.
- Informal Terms Informal. to make (accounts) false by changing in a dishonest way:[~ + object]The accountant tried to cook the books.
- [no object][Informal.]to take place or develop: What's cooking around here—anything happening?
- Slang Terms[no object] Slang. to perform or do something extremely well or with energy and style: The band is really cooking tonight.
- cook up, [~ + up + object][Informal.]to make up (an excuse, etc.) in order to deceive:What new scheme are you cooking up this time?
n. [countable] - a person who cooks.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cook1 (kŏŏk),USA pronunciation v.t. - to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
- to subject (anything) to the application of heat.
- Slang Termsto ruin;
spoil. - Informal Termsto falsify, as accounts:to cook the expense figures.
v.i. - to prepare food by the use of heat.
- (of food) to undergo cooking.
- Slang Terms
- to be full of activity and excitement:Las Vegas cooks around the clock.
- to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm:That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!
- to be in preparation;
develop:Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years. - to take place;
occur;
happen:What's cooking at the club?
- Military cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
- cook one's goose. See goose (def. 9).
- cook the books, [Slang.]to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders.
- cook up, [Informal.]
- to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly:She hastily cooked up an excuse.
- to falsify:Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.
n. - a person who cooks:The restaurant hired a new cook.
- Latin cocus, coquus, derivative of coquere to cook; akin to Greek péptein (see peptic); (verb, verbal) late Middle English coken, derivative of the noun, nominal
- (noun, nominal) Middle English cok(e), Old English cōc (compare Old Norse kokkr, German Koch, Dutch kok) bef. 1000
- Scottish Termsto hide, esp. outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge.
- perh. blend of, blended Middle English couche bend, stoop (see couch) and Middle English croke bend, stoop (see crooked) 1780–90
- Biographical Frederick Albert, 1865–1940, U.S. physician and polar explorer.
George Cram (kram),USA pronunciation 1873–1924, U.S. novelist, dramatist, and poet.- Biographical Captain James, 1728–79, English navigator and explorer in the S Pacific, Antarctic Ocean, and along the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.
- Biographical Sir Joseph, 1860–1947, Australian statesman, born in England: prime minister 1913–14.
- Place Names Mount. Also called Aorangi. a mountain in New Zealand, on South Island. 12,349 ft. (3764 m).
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