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cooked up

/kook/US // kʊk //UK // (kʊk) //

煮好的,煮熟的,煮熟了的,煮熟了

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to prepare by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting.
    • : to subject to the application of heat.
    • : Slang. to ruin; spoil.
    • : to process for use in an executable file format.
    • : Slang. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to prepare food by the use of heat.
    • : to undergo cooking.
    • : Slang. to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock.to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking!to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years.to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club?
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook.
  1. 1
    • : cook off, to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon.
    • : cook up, Informal. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse.to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi.

Phrases

  • cook someone's goose
  • cook the books
  • cook up
  • cook with gas
  • chief cook and bottlewasher
  • short order (cook)
  • too many cooks spoil the broth
  • what's cooking

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Jennifer follows her passions and takes us readers and cooks to places we might not go to if she didn't lead us there.

  • Mirsani’s sister, Ilhama Safarova, was among the contributing cooks.

  • Colleagues have become very patient about me cooking while on calls with them, and my boss always politely offers to call back at a more convenient time when met with the boys chanting “go away, go away” at him.

  • Portland’s Lex Grant has cooked in the NBA bubble and for Oprah Winfrey.

  • Some people find it helpful to label things with the date they were purchased or cooked.

  • Cook, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture is smooth.

  • Continue to cook until the sauce has reduced by three quarters.

  • In his response, Cook spoke sensitively about the very real danger present in the general pickup community.

  • “It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” Cook wrote.

  • An older white woman, stopped Cook to ask, in strong New York accent, “Oh no, did they let him off?”

  • She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

  • The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

  • It is to be feared that like the sauce of sauces in the hands of the inexperienced cook, the result is more than doubtful.

  • The voice of duty called her to the kitchen, where her cook patiently awaited her inevitable, and always painful, audience.

  • They stood outside the window and the cook passed them their coffee and a roll, which they drank and ate from the window-sill.