Cooked
adj, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of cook form-of, participle, past
- 1 Prepared by cooking.
- 2 Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable. slang
"Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions."
- 3 Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
"But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked."
- 4 Done in, exhausted, pooped. slang
- 5 In trouble; in a hopeless situation. predicative, slang
"If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked."
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- 6 Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned. Australia, especially, slang
- 7 Hungover.
- 8 Brain-damaged from drug use.
"Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do."
- 9 Of a person: crazy, insane. Australia, derogatory, figuratively, slang
- 1 having been prepared for eating by the application of heat wordnet
- 1 In trouble, exhausted, or finished. slang, internet, 2020s
"I am cooked after that exam."
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More examples"Paula and I cooked dinner on Sunday."
Etymology
From the past tense of the verb cook.
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