Etymology

From the past tense of the verb cook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊkt/Category:English 1-syllable words#COOKEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#COOKED

• Audio (US):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKED

• Audio (General Australian):

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  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#COOKED
• Rhymes: -ʊktCategory:Rhymes:English/ʊkt#COOKEDCategory:Rhymes:English/ʊkt/1 syllable#COOKED

Adjective

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)Category:English lemmas#COOKEDCategory:English adjectives#COOKEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKEDCategory:Pages with entries#COOKEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COOKED

1. (of food) Prepared by cooking.

   Antonyms: raw, uncooked; unprepared

   Hypernym: preparedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED

   Hyponyms: baked, cookedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED, broiledCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED, friedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED, sauteedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED, boiledCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED

2. (computingCategory:en:Computing#COOKED, slangCategory:English slang#COOKED, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
   • 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:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

   • [2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, in Special Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que, →ISBN, page 564:

     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.]

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

   • 2010 January 26, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, MP3 Complete, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 784:

     [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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

3. (of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
   • 1925 December 5, “In Parliament. The House of Lords”, in The Accountant, volume LXXIII, number 2661, London, England, United Kingdom, page 907:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

4. (slangCategory:English slang#COOKED) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
6. (slang, chiefly predicative) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.

   Synonym: (vulgar) fucked

   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms‎, Scribner:

     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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

   • 2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, in Politico‎:

     Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.

     Category:English terms with quotations#COOKED

8. (slangCategory:English slang#COOKED, especially AustraliaCategory:Australian English#COOKED) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.

   Synonyms: baked, toastedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED, intoxicatedCategory:English links with manual fragments#COOKED

10. Hungover.

    Synonym: baked

12. Brain-damaged from drug use.

    Synonym: baked

    Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.

    Category:English terms with usage examples#COOKED

14. (slangCategory:English slang#COOKED, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#COOKED, chiefly AustraliaCategory:Australian English#COOKED, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.

    Synonyms: baked; see also Thesaurus:insane

Verb

cookedCategory:English non-lemma forms#COOKEDCategory:English verb forms#COOKEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COOKEDCategory:Pages with entries#COOKEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COOKED

1. simple past and past participle of cook