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Cooks

/kʊks/

A person who prepares food.

📖 Definitions of "Cooks"

noun
  1. 1

    A person who prepares food.

    "I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."

  2. 2

    The head cook of a manor house

  3. 3

    The degree or quality of cookedness of food

  4. 4

    One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

    "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."

verb
  1. 1

    To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    "I'm cooking bangers and mash."

  2. 2

    To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

    "He's in the kitchen, cooking."

  3. 3

    To be cooked.

    "The dinner is cooking on the stove."

  4. 4

    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."

verb
  1. 1

    To make the noise of the cuckoo.

verb
  1. 1

    To throw.

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