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To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
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I'm cooking bangers and mash.
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To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
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He's in the kitchen, cooking.
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To be cooked.
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The dinner is cooking on the stove.
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To be uncomfortably hot.
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Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
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To execute by electric chair.
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To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
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To concoct or prepare.
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To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
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To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
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Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
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To play music vigorously.
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On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!