cold cook
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cold cook (plural cold cooks)
- (slang) An undertaker.
- 2011, Joyce Ann, Eliza Jane, page 66:
- The three of us took a big sigh as the cold cook took the sheet and pulled it back.
- 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
- I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary