bake off

Verb

bake off (third-person singular simple present bakes off, present participle baking off, simple past and past participle baked off)

1. (transitive) To cook (something) by baking.
   • When you finish baking off the first batch, start the second.
2. (intransitive) To be cooked by baking.
   • The cake will finish baking off in an hour.
3. (transitive) To cook off or reduce by baking.
   • Six pounds of batter will bake off to three pounds of prepared product.
4. (Multicultural-London-English, colloquial, intransitive) To relish one’s leisure, to hang around idly or possibly with recreational substances.
   • Learned a major lesson every time I took a major loss
     Times that I could have been making money, but I was baking off2022 March 29, “Old Me Freestyle”performed by 24wavey
   • I'm out on my block, baking off with all the savages
     It's early morning and I'm waiting on them packages2023 January 17, “Dnd”performed by Tickz

   Synonyms:

   chill, kick back, waste time, dawdle, putz around

5. (Multicultural-London-English, ambitransitive, slang) To engage in the preparation of crack cocaine.
   • The opp boys really get stretched, my brodies really go jail (Free em)
     And man’s girlfriends really get tek
     Them man couldn’t spend one day in my creps (Never)
     He got ticked off so who's next?
     I still bake off where he got cheffed2021 March 29, “High Right Now”performed by M24