chefing

Verb

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

1. (informal, stative) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
   • It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and who cheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]1953, The Deke Quarterly, volume 71, number 4, page 32
2. (Multicultural-London-English, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank.
   • He got cheffed up proper.

   Synonyms:

   ching, splash, chib, chive, enthrill, foin, gore, gride, jab, job

3. (Internet) To impress others.
   • thinkin' that I be cheffin'.'2020, “Drip Like Me”, performed by Kenndog

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Noun

cheffing (uncountable)

1. The activity of a chef.
   • Due to the ways in which they unsettle typical notions of what the work of cheffing entails and who performs it, their position within the profession is precarious.2016, Marcia Texler Segal, Gender and Food: From Production to Consumption and After