cook off
verbe- To eliminate by cooking. · You have to cook off the excess liquid.
- To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
- To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
- As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
- To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
- To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off. · Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.
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