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cooked off

cooked off is the simple past and past participle of cook off.

Meaning of 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.

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Questions about cooked off

What is cooked off the simple past and past participle of?
Cooked off is the simple past and past participle of cook off.

Words near cooked off in the dictionary

  1. Cooke triplet
  2. Cooke triplets
  3. cooked
  4. cooked back
  5. cooked mode
  6. cooked off
  7. cooked out
  8. cooked someone's goose
  9. cooked the books
  10. cooked through
  11. cooked up

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