COOK OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cook out mean? 

• COOK OUT (verb)
  The verb COOK OUT has 1 sense:

1. cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

  Familiarity information: COOK OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOK OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cook outdoors on a barbecue grill

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

barbecue; barbeque; cook out

Context example:

We cooked out in the forest

Hypernyms (to "cook out" is one way to...):

grill (cook over or under a grill)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cookout (an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors)