From the past tense of the verbcook.
cooked (comparativemorecooked,superlativemostcooked)
- (offood)Prepared by cooking.
- Antonyms:raw,uncooked;unprepared
- Hypernym:prepared
- Hyponyms:baked,cooked,broiled,fried,sauteed,boiled
- (computing, slang, of anMP3 audio file)Corrupted byconversion through atextformat,requiringuncooking to beproperlylistenable.
2000, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, “UncookCooked Files with Uncook 95”, inMP3!: I Didn’t Know You Could Do That--, 2 edition, SYBEX,→ISBN, page273:Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files arecooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.
[2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, inSpecial Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que,→ISBN, page564: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.]
2010 January 26, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes,MP3 Complete, SYBEX,→ISBN, page784:[S]upposed to sound, it may have beencooked.Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.
- (ofaccountingrecords,intelligence)Partially orwhollyfabricated,falsified.
1925 December 5, “In Parliament. The House of Lords”, inThe Accountant, volume LXXIII, number2661, London, England, United Kingdom, page907: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 becooked.
- (slang)Done in,exhausted,pooped.
- (slang, chieflypredicative)In trouble; in ahopelesssituation.
- Synonym:(vulgar)fucked
1929,Ernest Hemingway, chapter XXI, inA Farewell to Arms[1], Scribner:If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would becooked in another year. He said we were allcooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were allcooked.
2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, inPolitico[2]:Everybody could see Hillary Clinton wascooked in Iowa.
- (slang, especially Australia)Inebriated:drunk,high, orstoned.
- Synonyms:baked,toasted,intoxicated
- Hungover.
- Synonym:baked
- Brain-damaged from drug use.
- Synonym:baked
Don't bother talking to that guy—he'scooked from all the coke he used to do.
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia, figuratively) Of aperson:crazy,insane.
- Synonyms:baked;see alsoThesaurus:insane
- The sense of falsified records is commonly used in the phrase “cook the books”, representing fraudulent accounting.
of food, that has been prepared by cooking
cooked
- simplepast andpastparticiple ofcook
