cooked

From the past tense of the verb cook.

• IPA^(key): /kʊkt/

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• Rhymes: -ʊkt

cooked (comparative more cooked, superlative most cooked)

1. (of food) Prepared by cooking.

   Antonyms: raw, uncooked; unprepared

   Hypernym: prepared

   Hyponyms: baked, cooked, broiled, fried, sauteed, boiled

2. (computing, slang, of an MP3 audio file) Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
   • 2000, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, “Uncook Cooked Files with Uncook 95”, in MP3!: I Didn’t Know You Could Do That--, 2 edition, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 273:

     Select this button only if you’re 200 percent sure that the files are cooked and that you want to overwrite the originals with the uncooked versions.

   • [2001, Michael Miller, “Chapter 34: Online Music”, in Special Edition Using the Internet and Web, Que, →ISBN, page 564:

     Another cause of poor MP3 playback—especially when the sound is “gurgly”—is a “cooked” file. This means that at some point, the MP3 file has been transferred over the Web as an ASCII text file rather than a binary file.]

   • 2010 January 26, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, MP3 Complete, SYBEX, →ISBN, page 784:

     [S]upposed to sound, it may have been cooked. Cooking is a type of mangling that occurs when a server sends an audio file as text rather than as a binary file.

3. (of accounting records, intelligence) Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
   • 1925 December 5, “In Parliament. The House of Lords”, in The Accountant, volume LXXIII, number 2661, London, England, United Kingdom, page 907:

     But the Commanding Officer obviously has no say whatever as to which place he is likely to go, and the result is that, as regards rent, the figures have had to be “cooked,” if I may use such an expression. The figures have had to be cooked.

4. (slang) Done in, exhausted, pooped.
6. (slang, chiefly predicative) In trouble; in a hopeless situation.

   Synonym: (vulgar) fucked

   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter XXI, in A Farewell to Arms‎^[1], Scribner:

     If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked.

   • 2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, in Politico‎^[2]:

     Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa.

8. (slang, especially Australia) Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.

   Synonyms: baked, toasted, intoxicated

10. Hungover.

    Synonym: baked

12. Brain-damaged from drug use.

    Synonym: baked

    Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.

14. (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia, figuratively) Of a person: crazy, insane.

    Synonyms: baked; see also Thesaurus:insane

• The sense of falsified records is commonly used in the phrase “cook the books”, representing fraudulent accounting.

• cook the books
• someone's goose is cooked

cooked

1. simple past and past participle of cook