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cont. p94Alternative form of continued page 94Rate it:
contemplate one’s navelto excessively think or focus on one’s self or one’s own interests, concerns, or personal problems - usually to their detrimentRate it:
continued on page 94Alternative form of continued page 94Rate it:
continued page 94Indicates that the text could continue indefinitely; and so on ad infinitum.Rate it:
control freakIndividuals whom assume leadership, appoint assistants, develop and project the agenda, stipulate the rules, determine the timeline, assert their commanding profile.Rate it:
controlled substanceExcept for very limited professional testing purposes.Rate it:
conversation pieceinteresting objectRate it:
cookA person who prepares food for a living.Rate it:
cookThe head cook of a manor houseRate it:
cookOne who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Rate it:
cookA session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.Rate it:
cookA fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.Rate it:
cook offTo pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.Rate it:
cook offAs with above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.Rate it:
cook offTo cause an accidental detonation of explosives, especially due to excess heat.Rate it:
cook offTo accidentally detonate, especially as the result of excess heat.Rate it:
cook the booksTo manipulate accounting information, esp. illegally, by a corporation.Rate it:
cook upTo manufacture; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.Rate it:
cook upTo prepare a heroin dose by heating.Rate it:
cook upTo prepare a meal.Rate it:
cook up a stormTo do a large amount of cooking at once; to prepare a great deal of cooked food.Rate it:
cook up a stormTo cause a storm.Rate it:
cook up a stormTo create a stormy situation; agitate or enrage.Rate it:
cook up a stormTo make a big fuss, generate a lot of unnecessary talk or activity; make a scene.Rate it:
cook up a stormTo make a splash; to create a spectacle.Rate it:
Cook Your GooseTo bring someone down, spoil someone’s quality time or to wreck a happy plan or projectRate it:
cookedOf food, that has been prepared by cooking.Rate it:
cookedCorrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.Rate it:
cooked(of accounting records, intelligence) partially or wholly fabricated, falsifiedRate it:
cookedsimple past tense and past participle of cookRate it:
cookie lickingClaiming a project as your own, but without actually finishing it.Rate it:
cookie-cutterA solution to a problem that can be applied in many situations without modification.Rate it:
cookie-cutterOf or pertaining to cookie cutters.Rate it:
cookie-cutterOf or pertaining to identical looking things.Rate it:
cookie-cutterishLooking or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means; often with the implication that the result is boring, overly simple, or not applicable to all needs.Rate it:
cooking with gasNow doing something in an effective way.Rate it:
Cooking With GasTo perform or complete something with excellence and enthusiasmRate it:
cool as a cucumberCalm and composed even in difficult or frustrating situations; self-possessed.Rate it:
cool catA person who performs or appreciates jazz, especially one whose style of speech and movement is relaxed and rhythmic.Rate it:
cool catAn individual who is at ease and self-assured; one who is calm and composed in interactions with others.Rate it:
cool downTo become cooler, to be reduced in temperature.Rate it:
cool downTo cause something temperature to lower.Rate it:
cool downTo become less agitated.Rate it:
cool downTo cause to become less agitated.Rate it:
cool headA calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.Rate it:
cool heads must prevailAlternative form of cooler heads will prevail.Rate it:
cool heads prevailAlternative form of cooler heads will prevail.Rate it:
cool heads will prevailAlternative form of cooler heads will prevail.Rate it:
cool itCalm down, relax, take a time out.Rate it:
Cool ItTo calm downRate it:

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