Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.

  2. (transitive)To cook (something) sufficiently.

    You've got to cook out the spices to get rid of the bitterness.

    cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

Examples

5 sentences
  1. A good cook doesn't throw out yesterday's soup.

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  2. Dmitri and his friends were having a cook-out in the clearing.

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  3. Someone's cooking out.

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  4. How do you make holy water? You cook the hell out of it.

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  5. For centuries, friends and family chanted songs, youngsters danced, and cooks dished out traditional delicacies when Indian wedding festivities got under way.

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Forms

cooks out, cooking out, cooked out, cooked out
Base formcook out · to cook out
3rd person singularcooks out
Present participlecooking out
Past simplecooked out
Past participlecooked out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycook out
he, she, itcooks out

Past simpleLesson

all personscooked out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cooked out
he, she, ithas cooked out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cook out

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcookout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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