| Engelsk > Engelsk |
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| cook |
| 1. n. (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living. |
| 2. n. (cooking) The head cook of a manor house |
| 3. n. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. |
| Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab. |
| 4. n. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. |
| 5. n. A fish, the European striped wrasse,. |
| 6. v. To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. |
| I'm cooking bangers and mash. |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. |
| He's in the kitchen, cooking. |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To be being cooked. |
| The dinner is cooking on the stove. |
| 9. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot. |
| Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there. |
| 10. v. (slang) To execute by electric chair. |
| 11. v. (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. |
| I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back. |
| 12. v. To concoct or prepare. |
| 13. v. To tamper with or alter; to cook up. |
| 14. v. (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) |
| Watch this band: they cook! |
| Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking! |
| 15. v. (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously. |
| On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking! |
| 16. v. (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo. |
| 17. v. (dialect) To throw. |
| Svenska > Engelsk |
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| laga mat |
| 1. v. cook; to prepare food |
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