cooked
/kʊkt/ · cook·ed
verb
- To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. He's in the kitchen, cooking.
- To be cooked. The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- To make the noise of the cuckoo. The clock started cooking at noon.
- To throw. He cooked the ball into the air.
adjective
- Of food, that has been prepared by cooking. The cooked meal was delicious.
- Of an MP3 audio file, corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable. The cooked audio file needed to be converted back to its original format.
- Of accounting records, intelligence, partially or wholly fabricated, falsified. The cooked data was used to deceive investors.
Did you know? The phrase 'cooked up' is often used to describe a story or idea that has been fabricated or invented, likely due to the verb's association with falsified or fabricated data.