chef

A person paid to prepare food, often in charge of a restaurant kitchen.

• The chef made our dinner.
• She works as a chef at a hotel.
• The chefs created a new menu for spring.

Similar words: cook

Common phrases: head chef, restaurant chef, chef at something

A person who prepares food, including someone cooking at home.

• You can be the chef tonight.
• My dad is the chef in our family.
• The little chefs helped make sandwiches.

Similar words: cook

Common phrases: chef for tonight, amateur chef, family chef

The cook who manages the kitchen and meals in a large home.

• The household chef planned the meals.
• Their chef managed a kitchen with six assistants.
• The family’s chef prepared dinner for twenty guests.

Similar words: head cook

Common phrases: household chef, private chef, chef of something

To attack someone by pushing a knife into their body.

• He threatened to chef someone during the fight.
• A gang member cheffed him outside the shop.
• The victim was cheffed in the leg.

How to use it: chef someone up (He threatened to chef the man up.)

Similar words: stab, shank

Common phrases: chef someone, chef someone up