cook off

1. (literally)To eliminate by cooking.

   You have to cook off the excess liquid.

2. (transitive)To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.

3. (US, transitive)To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.

4. (US, transitive)As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.

5. (transitive)To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.

6. (intransitive)To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.

7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.

   Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.

1. What Tom was cooking set off the smoke alarm.

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2. A tank cooked off after taking counterbattery fire.

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3. The alcohol cooks off when you boil it.

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4. Oh, yeah? Do you want to have a cook-off to see who's the better cook?

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irregular

• cook upскладати, компенсуватиTo prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
• cook offTo eliminate by cooking.
• cook outTo cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
• cook backTo recook a drug (especially crack cocaine) in an aqueous solution (water) in order to isolate and concentrate the active ingredients, thereby increasing its potency.
• cook throughTo cook completely, to cook to the core.