cook off

Verb

cook off (third-person singular simple present cooks off, present participle cooking off, simple past and past participle cooked off)

1. (literally) To eliminate by cooking.
   • You have to cook off the excess liquid.
2. (transitive, liquor) To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
3. (US, transitive) To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
4. (US, transitive) As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
5. (transitive) To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
6. (intransitive) To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.
   • Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.