What does “cooked” mean?

So it’s shortened from “his/her goose is cooked.” It is used to mean it’s over. Someone has been lying or cheating and they’ve been caught. It can also mean really tired, and that would be a variation of the expression, “stick a fork in me. I’m done.”

Doomed. But it's usually used in a highly exaggerated way.

In addition to 'we're doomed/done for', there is a more recent distinct slang usage of cooked. This other sense originates from having 'cooked one's brain' doing too many drugs, but now has a broader meaning of 'bizarre, wrong in thinking'. "Someone needs to get Dave an Uber home, he's pretty cooked." "The decisions the coach has been making this season are totally cooked". For the more literally drug-affected sense, 'fried' is used similarly.

Depends on the context, especially in informal or slang usage. In that phrase, it generally means We are in trouble or we're done for: It implies that the situation is hopeless, there's no way out, or it's too late to fix things. It’s often used when someone feels defeated or overwhelmed by a situation. For example: After losing a big lead in a game, someone might say, "We're cooked." If someone forgets to meet a deadline and there's no way to recover, they might say, "I'm cooked."

In the UK it can be an abbreviation of "over-cooked" meaning it was too much, or excessive. For example I heard someone talking about a car that crashed into a lamp post and the person said "I think he cooked it coming around that corner" Meaning he was going too fast and that caused him to come off the road.

When something is fully cooked, it’s done. If you say “I’m cooked,” in slang that means I’m done for. People will also say “let him cook.” That means “wait, let him think” or “let him keep going, he’s not done.” It can be said sarcastically. Like when someone makes a bad point and you say “let him cook”

"we are cooked him" doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but "we are cooked" would mean something like "we are in trouble" or "we are fucked"

Usually, it means that food has been heated up to the appropriate temperature to eat. In slang (mainly online), it can also mean that you are in trouble, like defeat is certain.

If someone says "I'm cooked," they usually mean they're exhausted or they're done.  But sometimes "cooking" will also be used in a similar way to "cooking something up." If someone says "hold on, let him cook," they're saying, "don't interrupt him and let's see what he can do."  https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/19ezj0g/how_to_explain_let_him_cook_he_got_cooked/

The statement "we are cooked him" is incoherent. On the other hand, "we are cooked" is a pretty standard idiom, meaning: we are in a disastrous situation; we have no hope; we are doomed. This expression does not take a direct object, so it's not clear what the word "him" is doing there.

“I’m cooked” means “I’m in danger”


You may also hear the phrase "cooking the books" - in this case it is saying that a record has been altered to falsify or conceal data.

Man I wouldn't worry too much about that. It's so widely and loosely applied that it has almost no meaning. Soon enough it'll burn out

It can mean a few different things in different contexts. Most commonly irredeemably ruined.

to be cooked --> to be done for, to be out of luck, to have failed, to be fucked, to be screwed

Means done, finished or even broken down. You are finished