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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Name
Pronunciation: /kʊk/

Definition 1:
• An English surname originating as an occupation 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.
Labels: countable

Definition 2:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• A township in Sac County, Iowa.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 3:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• A township in Decatur County, Kansas.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 4:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• A minor city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota; named for railroad official Wirth Cook.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 5:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• A village in Johnson County, Nebraska; named for landowner Andrew Cook.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 6:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• An unincorporated community in Madison Township, Fayette County, Ohio; named for landowner Matthew S. Cook.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 7:
• A placename:
• A locale in the United States:
• A township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 8:
• A placename:
• A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; named for James Cook.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 9:
• A placename:
• A local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia; in full, the Shire of Cook.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 10:
• A placename:
• A ghost town in South Australia, Australia; named for Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 11:
• A placename:
• A river in Westland district, West Coast, New Zealand.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: Weheka
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 12:
• An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Labels: countable, uncountable
Noun
Pronunciation: /kʊk/

Definition 1:
• A person who prepares food.
Example: I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: cooker
Labels: cooking, food, lifestyle

Definition 2:
• The head cook of a manor house.
Labels: cooking, food, lifestyle

Definition 3:
• The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
Labels: cooking, food, lifestyle

Definition 4:
• The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
Labels: arts, business, construction, crafts, engineering, hobbies, lifestyle, manufacturing, metallurgy, metalworking, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Definition 5:
• One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Example: Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
Labels: slang

Definition 6:
• A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
Labels: slang

Definition 7:
• A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

Definition 8:
• An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
Labels: board-games, chess, games
Verb
Pronunciation: /kʊk/

Definition 1:
• To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
Example: I'm cooking bangers and mash.
Example: He's in the kitchen, cooking.
Labels: ambitransitive

Definition 2:
• To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Labels: intransitive, obsolete, rare

Definition 3:
• To throw.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck, jerk, heave, hield, hoy, huck, hurtle, launch, lob, peck, peg, pick, pitch, precipitate, project, quoit, shy, slight, skew, sling, thrill, throw, toss, traject, warp, whang, whip, whop, wing, yeet
Labels: UK, dialectal, obsolete

Definition 4:
• To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
Labels: specifically, transitive

Definition 5:
• To undergo cooking.
Example: The dinner is cooking on the stove.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 6:
• To smelt.
Labels: video-games, transitive

Definition 7:
• To be uncomfortably hot.
Example: Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: bake, stew
Labels: figuratively, intransitive

Definition 8:
• To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
Labels: slang, transitive

Definition 9:
• To execute by electric chair.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: fry
Labels: slang, transitive

Definition 10:
• To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
Example: I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: cook off
Labels: government, military, politics, war, slang, transitive

Definition 11:
• To concoct or prepare.
Example: My brother was locked up for cooking meth in his basement.
Example: Jesse, we need to cook.

Definition 12:
• To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
Labels: slang, transitive

Definition 13:
• To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
Example: Watch this band: they cook!
Example: Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
Labels: intransitive, slang

Definition 14:
• To play music vigorously.
Example: On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
Labels: entertainment, lifestyle, music, intransitive, slang

Definition 15:
• 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).
Example: Hol' up, let that boy cook!
Example: OK, who let him cook?
Labels: humorous, intransitive, slang

Definition 16:
• 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.
Example: We had to deal with some problems at first, but now we're cooking.
Labels: humorous, intransitive, slang

Definition 17:
• 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.
Example: The furlough of workers during The Lockdowns left many with a conspiracy bent ample time to cook.
Labels: Australia, derogatory, humorous, intransitive, slang

Definition 18:
• To defeat or humiliate.
Example: He didn't prepare for the debate at all, so his opponent cooked him hard.
Example: You didn't have to cook him like that!
Labels: slang, transitive

Definition 19:
• To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
Example: This new labor law is really cooking working-class people.
Example: This assignment is cooking me big time.
Labels: slang, transitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cook