cook with electricity Definition

cook
verb cooked, cooking

tr & intr
1. To prepare (food) or be prepared by heating.

Thesaurus: bake, heat, boil, steam, grill, roast, brew, broil, fry, sauté, stew.
2. colloq
To alter (accounts, etc) dishonestly.

noun

1. Someone who cooks or prepares food.

Idiom: cook the books

To falsify accounts, records, etc.

Idiom: cook someone's goose

See under goose.

Idiom: cook with gas (cook with electricity)

colloq
To be successful.

Idiom: What's cooking?

colloq
What's happening?; What's the plan?

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon coc, from Latin coquus.

Phrasal Verb: cook something up

To concoct or invent it.To prepare (a drug, especially heroin) for use, by heating.