How to pronounce “cook off”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (literally) To eliminate by cooking.
• (transitive, liquor) To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
• (transitive, US, military) To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
• (transitive, US, military) As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
• (transitive, chemistry, military) To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
• (intransitive, chemistry, military, of explosives) To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook,‎ off.

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