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cook out

cook out is the alternative form of cookout.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
  2. (transitive) To cook (something) sufficiently.
    • You've got to cook out the spices to get rid of the bitterness.

Meaning of cookout

Noun

cookout (plural cookouts)

  1. (US) A gathering for a meal that is cooked and eaten outside; either a domestic barbecue or a larger social event.

Forms of cook out

Noun
pluralcook outs
alternative formcookout
alternative formcook-out
Verb
third-person singular presentcooks out
present participlecooking out
past participlecooked out
pastcooked out

Questions about cook out

What does cook out mean?
Cook out means to cook a group meal outside as a family, workplace or other social unit.
What is cook out the alternative form of?
Cook out is the alternative form of cookout.
What part of speech is cook out?
Cook out is a verb.
What is the past tense of cook out?
The past tense of cook out is cooked out.

Words near cook out in the dictionary

  1. Cook Islanders
  2. Cook Islands
  3. Cook Islands Maori
  4. Cook Islands Māori
  5. cook off
  6. cook out
  7. cook outs
  8. cook pot
  9. cook pots
  10. Cook reduction
  11. Cook reductions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cook out (page history and authors); cookout (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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