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Cook's tour

Cook's tour noun: a long or complicated journey, an indirect route.

Noun

Cook's tour (plural Cook's tours)

  1. (informal) A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.
    • The detour meant that we had to go on a twenty-mile Cook's tour to get home.

Forms of Cook's tour

pluralCook's tours

Origin of Cook's tour

From Thomas Cook, considered to be the world's first travel agent, running guided tours of Europe and the Middle East in the mid-1800s.

Questions about Cook's tour

What does Cook's tour mean?
Cook's tour means a long or complicated journey, an indirect route.
What part of speech is Cook's tour?
Cook's tour is a noun.
What is the plural of Cook's tour?
The plural of Cook's tour is Cook's tours.

Words near Cook's tour in the dictionary

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  2. cook's knife
  3. Cook's petrel
  4. Cook's petrels
  5. Cook's theorem
  6. Cook's tour
  7. Cook's tours
  8. cook-chill
  9. cook-chilled
  10. cook-chilling
  11. cook-house

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