a person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way:Susan was a school cookI’m a good cook
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Universal
1 [with object] prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients:shall I cook dinner tonight? [with two objects]:she cooked me eggs and bacon (as adjective cooked)a cooked breakfast
[no object] (of food) be heated so that the state required for eating is reached:while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock
(cook something down) heat food and cause it to thicken and reduce in volume:cooking down the chutney can take up to 45 minutes
2 [with object] informal alter dishonestly; falsify:a narcotics team who cooked the evidence
(be cooked) be in an inescapably bad situation:if I can’t talk to him I’m cooked
3 [no object] (be cooking) informal be happening or planned:what’s cooking on the alternative fuels front?
4 [no object]North American informal perform or proceed vigorously or very well:the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook
cook the books
informal alter facts or figures dishonestly or illegally:he was an accountant, he could have cooked the books and made himself a lot more money
cook someone's goose
informal spoil someone’s plans; cause someone’s downfall:I’ve got enough on you to cook your goose
too many cooks spoil the broth
proverb if too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well.
cook something up
concoct a clever or devious story, excuse, or plan:I’ve had plenty of time to cook up an outlandish conspiracy theory
