cook off (English, verb)
expansion: cook off (third-person singular simple present cooks off, present participle cooking off, simple past and past participle cooked off)
Senses:
glosses: To eliminate by cooking.
tags: literally
qualifier: liquor
glosses: To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
tags: transitive
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
tags: US
transitive
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
tags: US
transitive
topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
tags: transitive
topics: chemistry
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
tags: intransitive
raw_tags: of explosives
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.
Forms:
form: cooks off
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooking off
tags: participle
present
form: cooked off
tags: participle
past
form: cooked off
tags: past