cooked

Prepared by cooking.

Adjective

  1. Prepared by cooking.

    Antonyms: raw uncooked unprepared

    Hypernyms: prepared

  2. Corrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
    • 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. - 2000, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, “Uncook Cooked Files with...
    • 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....
    • [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. - 2010 January 26, Guy Hart-Davis, Rhonda Holmes, MP3...
  3. Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
    • 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...
  4. Done in, exhausted, pooped.
  5. In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
    • 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. - 1929, Ernest Hemingway, chapter...
    • Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. - 2016 December 14, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election”, in Politico:

    Synonyms: fucked

  6. Inebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.

    Synonyms: baked toasted intoxicated

  7. Hungover.

    Synonyms: baked

  8. Brain-damaged from drug use.
    • Don't bother talking to that guy—he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.

    Synonyms: baked

  9. Of a person: crazy, insane.

    Synonyms: baked 5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty bonkers bread baskets cracked crackers cra-cra cray cray-cray crazed crazy crazy as a bedbug crazy as a cootie

Origin

From the past tense of the verb cook.

Forms

more cooked most cooked

Related

cook the books someone's goose is cooked

Derived

cooked mode cookedness homecooked more than someone has had cooked dinners noncooked pre-cooked ready-cooked someone's goose is cooked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of cook