Slang dossier
Cooked
Pronounced cookt
Done for, exhausted, overwhelmed or in a very bad position. It can describe a difficult exam, a losing game or an embarrassing mistake, not only food.
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In a sentence
How it sounds
Illustrative examples
- “I forgot the presentation. I am cooked.”
- “Our team is cooked if we lose another round.”
Where teens use it
The habitat
School conversations, sports reactions, gaming chats and exaggerated accounts of minor disasters.
Parent briefing
What parents should know
Often dramatic exaggeration, but ask what actually happened. If a teen repeatedly describes themselves as hopeless or unable to cope, respond to the feeling rather than dismissing it because they used a meme word.
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