My partner is thechef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.
(slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; acook.
1998,SPIN, volume14, number 3, page100:
But trying to stop all the nation's methchefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border.
2013, Mike Power,Drugs 2.0:
Owsley Stanley, the world's most exacting and prolific LSDchef who supplied the majority of America's West Coast with LSD in the 1960s, claimed he made so much acid not because he wanted to change the world, but rather because it was almost impossible not to make vast quantities of the drug once the synthesis had been embarked upon.
When used in reference to a cook with nosous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the termconnotes a certain degree ofprestige—whetherculinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing,chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.Within a catering establishment, the head cook (and no-one else) will normally be addressed simply as "chef" as a term of respect.
chef (third-person singular simple presentchefs,present participlecheffingor(uncommon)chefing,simple past and past participlecheffedor(uncommon)chefed)
(stative,informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
1953,The Deke Quarterly, volume71, number 4, page32:
It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and whocheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]
1996,Sonora Review, number31, page110:
Icheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town.
2007,Indianapolis Monthly, page68:
He opened Oakleys in 2002, having formerlycheffed at the late, much-missed Something Different and, before that, world-renowned kitchens in Chicago[…]
2020, William Sitwell,The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
A man called Richard Briggscheffed at the Globe Tavern on Fleet Street, the White Hart Tavern in Holborn and the Temple Coffee House.
Child just said he'd "chef me up". I said not hungry, but it restored my faith in young generation, offering to cook for strangers.
2018 August 9, “Pallance 2.0”, Taze of SMG (lyrics):
He gotcheffed in the A in the head
2018 August 16, “Ks On Who”, Sav12 of 12World (lyrics):
Third time he was out of luck He tripped up and gotcheffed
2019 October 9, Manuel Petrovic, quotee, “Jodie Chesney: Killer targeted 'wrong people' court told”, inBBC News[2], archived fromthe original on2019-11-06:
Asked how he knew that, he replied: "Uh? Because I know that ... It was to do with Svenson'sop - theycheffed him up a couple of month or something, a couple of months before.
Créant dans des établissements de prestige de nombreuses recettes reprises ensuite par d’autreschefs, Escoffier a fait connaitre internationalement la cuisine française.
Creating in prestigious establishments caused many of his recipes to be later taken up by othercooks, and thus Escoffier made French cuisine internationally known.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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