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cooks

/kʊks/

cooks is the plural of cook.

cooks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cook.

Meaning of cook

Noun

cook (plural cooks)

  1. A person who prepares food.
    • I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
    Synonyms:
    cooker
  2. The head cook of a manor house.
  3. The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
  4. The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
  5. (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
    • Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
  6. (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
    • Punko told Plante he wanted to use a full barrel for the next cook.2011, Neal Hall, Hell To Pay: Hells Angels vs. The Million-Dollar Rat, page 36

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Proper noun capitalized: Cooks

Cooks

  1. A surname

Words formed from cooks

Phrases with cooks

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Words that rhyme with cooks

Questions about cooks

What does cooks mean?
Cooks means a surname.
What is cooks the plural of?
Cooks is the plural of cook.
What part of speech is cooks?
Cooks is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce cooks?
Cooks is pronounced /kʊks/.

Words near cooks in the dictionary

  1. cookpots
  2. Cookridge
  3. cookroom
  4. cookrooms
  5. cookry
  6. cooks
  7. cooks back
  8. Cooks Gap
  9. Cooks Hill
  10. Cooks Myalls
  11. cooks off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cooks (page history and authors); Cooks (page history and authors); cook (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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