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How to pronounce “cook”

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Pronunciation guide for cook

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of cook with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Dane Cook>>Male Presenter: So, we're very excited to Dane Cook here today to an hour of fireside
Definition summary
(cooking) A person who prepares food.

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How to pronounce cook

Dane Cook

>>Male Presenter: So, we're very excited to Dane Cook here today to an hour of fireside

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “cook”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (cooking) A person who prepares food.
  • (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.
  • (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
  • A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
  • (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
  • [Verb]
  • (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
  • (transitive, video games) To smelt.
  • (intransitive) To be cooked.
  • (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
  • (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
  • (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
  • (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
  • (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
  • (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
  • (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
  • (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
  • (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
  • (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
  • (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.

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