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cooking out

cooking out is the present participle and gerund of cook out.

Meaning of cook out

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.

Questions about cooking out

What is cooking out the present participle and gerund of?
Cooking out is the present participle and gerund of cook out.

Words near cooking out in the dictionary

  1. cooking liquors
  2. cooking off
  3. cooking oil
  4. cooking oils
  5. cooking on gas
  6. cooking out
  7. cooking plate
  8. cooking plates
  9. cooking pot
  10. cooking pots
  11. cooking sherries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooking out (page history and authors); cook out (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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