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chef up

chef up verb: to prepare a meal.

Verb

chef up (third-person singular simple present chefs up, present participle cheffing up, simple past and past participle cheffed up)

  1. (transitive) To prepare a meal.
  2. (transitive) To make a dish using advanced culinary techniques and unusual ingredients or combinations of ingredients; to add such techniques and ingredients to a classic dish.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To attack with a knife.

Forms of chef up

third-person singular presentchefs up
present participlecheffing up
past participlecheffed up
pastcheffed up

Words formed from chef up

Questions about chef up

What does chef up mean?
Chef up means to prepare a meal.
What part of speech is chef up?
Chef up is a verb.
What is the past tense of chef up?
The past tense of chef up is cheffed up.

Words near chef up in the dictionary

  1. chef de rang
  2. Chef Mic
  3. Chef Mike
  4. chef salad
  5. chef salads
  6. chef up
  7. chef watcher
  8. chef watchers
  9. chef's kiss
  10. chef's kisses
  11. chef's knife

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