cook
/kʊk/ noun A1- A person who prepares food. · I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
- The head cook of a manor house.
- The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
- One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. · Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
- 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.
Plural cooks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had disappeared.
“Yes, it _is_ his business!” said Five, “and I’ll tell him—it was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.”
The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her.
The next witness was the Duchess’s cook.
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