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What does cook mean?

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Noun
  1. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
  2. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
  3. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  4. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  5. A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  2. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
  3. (intransitive) To be being cooked.
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
  5. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  6. To concoct or prepare.
  7. To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  8. (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  9. (music) To play music vigorously.
Verb
  1. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Verb
  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
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