Cooked

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heidict entry

Cooked — /kʊkt/ · adjective · sentiment: neutral.

Definitions

(informal, playful, clanker-slang) — Fried. Brain not doing brain things. Same territory as wedged and fried — cognition dimmed, can't lock in, can't hold a thought long enough to finish it. Usually short-term: too high, too tired, five espressos in, up too late, first hour after waking up.
- Bro's cooked, don't ask him for the tab reference right now.
- Three hours of code review and I'm cooked.
- Wedged, cooked, and crash looping — full stack.
Positioned against: Wedged (sense 1) (axis: cause-vs-state (of cognition failure)) — Overlaps with wedged on the brain-not-working reading; differs in emphasis. Cooked foregrounds the heat/exhaustion cause (why the brain stopped); wedged foregrounds the forward-progress failure (what the brain can't do now).

Synonym: Wedged (sense 1)
(informal) — In serious trouble; the situation is unrecoverable. "We're cooked" — the deploy is going out with the bug, the meeting is about to happen without the deck, the outcome is already written and it's not the one you wanted.
- Prod's down and support is asleep — we're cooked.
- If they open the PR before the fix lands, we're cooked.
(general) — (of food) Prepared by the application of heat until done. Past participle of cook used as an adjective.
- The rice is cooked.

Etymology

cook: English, from Old English cōc; to apply heat until done. Two slang transfer paths ran in parallel — "overcooked / burnt out" for the cognition sense, and the older idiom your goose is cooked (18th c., meaning your fate is sealed) for the in-trouble sense.

The cognition sense sits in the tight synonym cluster with wedged, fried, and high (in its impairment reading); the in-trouble sense is older and mainstream. Both are live at once — context does the disambiguation. Distinct from the verb cook, where the same lexeme flips polarity and becomes a compliment.

Usage

Stacks with wedged and crash looping in the cognition sense — someone can be cooked, wedged, and crash looping in the same breath, each pointing at a different facet of the same fried state. Distinct from the verb cook (to perform excellently), which flips the polarity of the same lexeme.

Sources

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