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cooks off

cooks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 cooks off

What is cooks off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cooks off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cook off.

Words near cooks off in the dictionary

  1. cooks
  2. cooks back
  3. Cooks Gap
  4. Cooks Hill
  5. Cooks Myalls
  6. cooks off
  7. cooks out
  8. cooks someone's goose
  9. Cooks syndrome
  10. cooks the books
  11. cooks through

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