cooked en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From the past tense of the verb cook.
Meanings
- (of food) Prepared by cooking.
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(of an MP3 audio file, slang) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
[S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.
2010 January 26, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, MP3 Complete, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 784:Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.
[2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, in Special Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que, →ISBN, page 564: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.
2000, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, “Uncook Cooked Files with Uncook 95”, in MP3!: I Didn’t Know You Could Do That--, 2 edition, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 273:
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(of accounting records, qualifier:intelligence) 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.
1925 December 5, “In Parliament. The House of Lords”, in The Accountant, volume LXXIII, number 2661, London, England, United Kingdom, page 907:
- (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
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(predicative, slang) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
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.
1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms, Scribner:Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.
2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, in Politico:
- (Australia, especially, slang) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- Hungover.
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Brain-damaged from drug use.
Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.
- (Australia, derogatory, figuratively, slang) Of a person: crazy, insane.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most cooked | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more cooked | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
raw · unprepared · uncooked
Deriveds
someone's goose is cooked · noncooked · ready-cooked · homecooked · cookedness · pre-cooked · cooked mode · more than someone has had cooked dinners
Hypernyms
Relateds
someone's goose is cooked · cook the books
Synonyms
crazed · disturbed · crazy as a cootie bug · tonto · lunatic · psychotic · baked · eccentric · loon · intoxicated · whacko · loopy · loony tunes · batpoop · whacky · fruit loops · meshugge · wode · sicko · dotty · potty · fucked in the head · mental · bats · crazy as a bedbug · nonsane · cra-cra · barmy · baked · crackers · daft · loony · nutballs · cracked · ripshit · kooky · loco · doolally · barking mad · crazy · whackjob · psychoceramic · apeshit · psycho · bat-shit · buggish · batchy · starkers · yampy · meshigener · nut job · hatstand · baked · nuts · weird · batty · mentally ill · cray · bonkers · nucking futs · distraught · barking · squirrelly · moonsick · crazy as a pet coon · off the beam · gaga · fucked · daffy · batshit · harebrained · buggy · zany · fucked up · nut · nutty · demented · deranged · nerts · nutter · screwy · batcrap · crazy as a cootie · toasted · wackadoodle · mad · cray-cray · bughouse · cuckoo · insane · bananas · over the edge · unsane · non compos mentis · bread baskets · baked · nutso · unbalanced · 5150 · off the chain
Translations (45)
acw مَطْبُوخ (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · hi लग गए (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · es cocinado (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · cmn 煮熟的 (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ru варёный (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · acw مُسْتَوي (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · pl ugotowany (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · he מבושלת (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · fi paistettu (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · pt cozinhado (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · fr cuit (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · nl gekookt (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ru сва́ренный (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ro copt (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · te వండిన (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · es frito frito pescadito (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · tl luto (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · gl cocido (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · pdt goa (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · es frito pescadito (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · yue 煮熟嘅 (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ja 終わった (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · el μαγειρευμένος (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · gl cociñado (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · de am Arsch (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · la coctus (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · pt frito (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · nrf tchuit (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · fi keitetty (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · it cotto (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · hu főtt (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · fr foutu (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · fur cuet (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · es cocido (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · sv tillagad (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · he מבושל (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · fi kypsennetty (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · sv kokad (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · es frito (in trouble; in a hopeless situation) · de gekocht (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ru пригото́вленный (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · grc πεπτός (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · br poazh (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · it cucinato (of food, that has been prepared by cooking) · ja 詰んだ (in trouble; in a hopeless situation)