cooker

noun

1. (Ireland, UK)A cookstove.
2. (Ireland, UK)An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
3. One who cooks.

   “[…] I am a true † cooker of men, that is to ſay, I not only dreſs and prepare ſuch vile eatables as theſe, but that green creature, called man, I kill, and cut in pieces, aye, and devour him too, heart and all.”

   “And, if we may believe the tale, / Her canny hand will ſcarcely fail, / Whate’er ſhe tries, to help or heal, / She’ll ſeldom blunder; / If ſhe be cooker of the kail, / She’ll gar us wonder.”

   “She was, in sooth, a most delicious cooker of delicious tit-bits.”

   ““A most excellent cooker of eggs, is Mrs. J.,” I said to my companion (silent companions are often the best of company); “most excellent. Few people can be relied upon to always cook one’s eggs properly, but Mrs. J. is one of the few.””

   “As the hon. Provincial Treasurer knows, he is the greatest cooker of the books, and when he leaves here he can get a job as a chef at the King Edward hotel—”

4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of cooking apple.

   “For the British market, apples are classed as early, mid-season, or late, and subdivided into eaters or cookers.”

5. (Australia, slang)A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
6. (slang)The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.

   “[…] does not know how to pick up the liquid from the cooker, and he asks someone else to use his rig to put his part in his rig.”

7. (Australia, derogatory, slang)A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
8. (Australia, derogatory, slang)A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.