A proper noun "cook" represents various locales in the united states, including a city in minnesota, a village in nebraska, and an unincorporated community in ohio, as well as a suburb of canberra, australian capital territory, australia, a local government area in far north queensland, australia, a ghost town in south australia, australia, and a river in new zealand.

An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

(cooking) A person who prepares food.

(cooking) The head cook of a manor house.

(cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.

(slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

(slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.

A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.

(chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.

(transitive or intransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.

(intransitive) To be cooked.

(transitive, figurative) To be uncomfortably hot.

(slang) To execute by electric chair.

(transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.

To concoct or prepare.

To tamper with or alter; to cook up.

(intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)

(intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.

(slang, humorous) In certain phrases: to proceed with some advantageous plan or course of action (especially in relation to flirting or applying rizz).