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   cook

   /kʊk/

   verb

   • 1. prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients: "shall I cook dinner tonight?" Similar preparemakegetput togetherbakeinformal:fixknock uprustle up
   • ▪ (of food) be heated so that the state required for eating is reached: "while the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock"
   • 2. alter dishonestly; falsify: informal "a narcotics team who cooked the evidence" Similar falsifyalterdoctortamper withinterfere withmassagemanipulaterigmisrepresentforgeinformal:fiddle
   • ▪ be in an inescapably bad situation: "if I can't talk to him I'm cooked"
   • 3. be happening or planned: informal "what's cooking on the alternative fuels front?" Similar happengo onoccurtake placeinformal:go down
   • 4. perform or proceed vigorously or very well: informal North American "the band used to get up on the bandstand and really cook"

   noun

   • 1. a person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way: "Susan was a school cook"

   Word Origin Old Englishcōc (noun), from popular Latin cocus, from Latin coquus.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cookable adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • C

     3

   • O

     1

   • O

     1

   • K

     5

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