cook

About 19.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person who prepares food.

   I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.

2. noun The head cook of a manor house.
3. noun The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
4. noun The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
5. noun One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

   Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.

6. noun A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
7. noun A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
8. noun An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

Similar words

fudge fix manipulate make prepare wangle ready falsify fake misrepresent

Often followed by

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Word family

Cook James Cook cookable cooked cooking cooks