Definition of "chef"

chef

/ʃɛf/

noun
plural chefs
1. The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
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  The Chef's peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
  a. 1845, R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
2. The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
  Quotations
  The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
  1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVIII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, page 266
3. Any cook.
4. (slang) One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
  Quotations
  But trying to stop all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border.
  1998, SPIN, volume 14, number 3, page 100
  Owsley Stanley, the world's most exacting and prolific LSD chef who supplied the majority of America's West Coast with LSD in the 1960s, claimed he made so much acid not because he wanted to change the world, but rather because it was almost impossible not to make vast quantities of the drug once the synthesis had been embarked upon.
  2013, Mike Power, Drugs 2.0
5. (historical) A reliquary in the shape of a head.
verb
third-person singular simple present chefs, present participle cheffing or (now less common) chefing, simple past cheffed, past participle cheffed or (now less common) chefed
1. (stative, informal) To work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.
  Quotations
  It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and who cheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]
  1953, The Deke Quarterly, volume 71, number 4, page 32
  I cheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town.
  1996, Sonora Review, number 31, page 110
  He opened Oakleys in 2002, having formerly cheffed at the late, much-missed Something Different and, before that, world-renowned kitchens in Chicago […]
  2007, Indianapolis Monthly, page 68
  A man called Richard Briggs cheffed at the Globe Tavern on Fleet Street, the White Hart Tavern in Holborn and the Temple Coffee House.
  2020, William Sitwell, The Restaurant: A History of Eating Out, Simon and Schuster
2. (MLE, transitive) To stab with a knife, to shank.
  Quotations
  Still on my knife work chef him up with that rambo
  2016, “Skeng Man”, ASAP of 67 (lyrics)
  Child just said he'd "chef me up". I said not hungry, but it restored my faith in young generation, offering to cook for strangers.
  2017 June 13, @louistheroux, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 8 November 2023
  He got cheffed in the A in the head
  2018 August 9, “Pallance 2.0”, Taze of SMG (lyrics)
  Third time he was out of luckHe tripped up and got cheffed
  2018 August 16, “Ks On Who”, Sav12 of 12World (lyrics)
  Asked how he knew that, he replied: "Uh? Because I know that ... It was to do with Svenson's op - they cheffed him up a couple of month or something, a couple of months before.
  2019 October 9, Manuel Petrovic, quotee, “Jodie Chesney: Killer targeted 'wrong people' court told”, in BBC News‎, archived from the original on 2019-11-06

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