Supercook vs. Cook

An exceptional cook.

(cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

Example: ‘Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.’;

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

(transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Example: ‘I'm cooking bangers and mash.’;

(intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.

Example: ‘He's in the kitchen, cooking.’;

(intransitive) To be being cooked.

Example: ‘The dinner is cooking on the stove.’;

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.’;

To hold onto (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.’;

To concoct or prepare.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

Example: ‘Watch this band: they cook!’; ‘Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!’;

To play music vigorously.

Example: ‘On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!’;

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

To throw.

To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Example: ‘Constant cuckoos cook on every side.’;

To throw.

To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.

To concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; - often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.

Example: ‘They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.’;

To prepare food for the table.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

A fish, the European striped wrasse.

someone who cooks food

English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)

prepare a hot meal;

Example: ‘My husband doesn't cook’;

prepare for eating by applying heat;

Example: ‘Cook me dinner, please’; ‘can you make me an omelette?’; ‘fix breakfast for the guests, please’;

transform and make suitable for consumption by heating;

Example: ‘These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes’;

transform by heating;

Example: ‘The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle’;

fake or falsify;

Example: ‘Fudge the figures’; ‘cook the books’; ‘falsify the data’;