cook off
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English
Verb
cook off (third-person singular simple present cooks off, present participle cooking off, simple past and past participle cooked off)
- (literally) To eliminate by cooking.
- You have to cook off the excess liquid.
- (transitive, liquor) To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
- (transitive, US, military) To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
- (transitive, US, military) As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
- (transitive, chemistry, military) To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
- (intransitive, chemistry, military, of explosives) To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.
- Make sure you cook off all the juices before you turn the heat down.