词组 | cook |
释义 | cook 1. noun 1 a musician who plays with great passion and energy US, 1962. 2 on the railways, a rear brakesman US, 1977. 3 a look, in the phrases 'give a cook', 'have a cook', 'take a cook'. Possibly rhyming slang, or may simply be an accidental rhyme formed by confusion with the Yiddish use of German guck (a look) UK, 1960. 4 extreme criticism AUSTRALIA, 1989 2. verb 1 to melt a powdered narcotic, especially heroin, in water, prior to injecting or inhaling. The drug is 'cooked up' and 'cooked down' US, 1952. 2 to boil dynamite to extract nitroglycerine US, 1992. 3 to prepare crack cocaine, heating a mixture of cocaine, lidocaine, baking soda and other chemicals to remove the hydrochloride US, 1992. 4 to excel, to excite people US, 1942. 5 to falsify accounting figures; to manipulate them UK, 1636. 6 to make something radioactive; to become radioactive US, 1950. 7 (used of a car radiator in hot rodding) to boil over US, 1960. 8 to execute someone by electrocution US, 1932.► cook on all fourto be very busily employed. Adopted from COOK WITH GAS or COOK ON THE FRONT BURNER CANADA, 1984.► cook on the front burnerto excel; to go fast US, 1956.► cook with gasto perform successfully, especially after a period of trying and failing; to do very well US, 1941.► cook your goose1. to ruin someone; to kill someone UK, 1851.2. to drink to the point of being drunk US, 1964 cook up 1. cook up sth • cook sth up to make a meal quickly: Neneh was in the kitchen cooking up a dinner of rice, chicken and black-eye peas.■ SIMILAR TO: rustle up2. cook up sth • cook sth up to think of a lie or an excuse, especially to stop someone from blaming you for something: Rachel cooked up some excuse about her car breaking down, but I guessed that she'd been seeing Rupert.■ SIMILAR TO: make up, concoct formal, invent
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