Chef

Definitions

1. The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.
2. The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
3. Any cook.
4. One who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.
   slang
5. A reliquary in the shape of a head.
   historical

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Examples

“The Chef's peace of mind⟳ was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board⟳.”

“The cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.”

“My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.”

“But trying to stop⟳ all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense⟳ as building a wall along the Mexican border⟳.”

“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.”

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