A surname

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cook

plural of cook

(countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a cook or seller of cooked food. Famously held by James Cook, English captain and explorer of the Pacific Ocean, and for whom the Cook Islands, Cook Strait and Mount Cook were named.

simple past tense and past participle of cook

(cooking) A person who prepares food. / (cooking) The head cook of a manor house / (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food

(UK, dialect, obsolete) To throw.

(transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. / (intransitive) To be cooked. / (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.

(obsolete, rare, intransitive) To make the noise of the cuckoo.

Of food, that has been prepared by cooking. / (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.