cook

Someone who prepares food, as a job or at home.

• My father is a good cook.
• The restaurant hired two cooks.
• Who is the best cook in your family?

Similar words: chef

Common phrases: good cook, restaurant cook, head cook

Someone who makes illegal drugs, especially methamphetamine.

• Police arrested a meth cook.
• The cooks worked in an illegal drug lab.
• Investigators found chemicals used by the cook.

Common phrases: meth cook, drug cook

To prepare food for eating, usually by heating it.

• I cook dinner every evening.
• She cooked rice for lunch.
• Can you cook for six people?

How to use it: cook something for someone (He cooked a meal for his friends.); cook someone something (She cooked us dinner.)

Similar words: prepare

Common phrases: cook dinner, cook a meal, cook for someone, cook rice

To feel much too hot.

• We are cooking in this room.
• The dog was cooking in the hot car.
• Without a fan, I cooked all afternoon.

Similar words: roast, swelter

Common phrases: cook in something, cook in here