noun

• (cooking) A person who prepares food.
  "I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners."
• (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
• (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
• (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  "Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab."

verb

• (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
  "I'm cooking bangers and mash."
• (transitive, video games) To smelt.
  "Your suggestion makes sense. You cook iron with coal to get... iron. The coal is expended, where does it go? inside the iron to turn it into steel in real life. I approve"
• (intransitive) To be cooked.
  "The dinner is cooking on the stove."
• (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."

verb

• (obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
  "Constant cuckoos cook on every side."

verb

• (UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.
  "Cook. To throw. Cook me that ball, throw me that ball. Glou."