Usually means: Unintended discharge of firearm heat.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word cook off:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. cook-off, cook off: Merriam-Webster
  2. cook-off: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. cook-off, cook-off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Cook-Off, Cook-off, cook-off: Wordnik
  5. cook-off, cook off: Wiktionary
  6. cook-off: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. cook-off, cook off: Dictionary.com
  8. Cook-Off, Cook Off, Cook-off: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. cook-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cook-off: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cook off: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explosives (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cook off)

verb:  (literally) To eliminate by cooking.
verb:  (transitive, liquor) To heat alcohol in preparation for distilling liquor.
verb:  (transitive, US, military) To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.
verb:  (transitive, US, military) As above, except to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry, military) To cause an accidental detonation of explosives due to excess heat.
verb:  (intransitive, chemistry, military, of explosives) To accidentally detonate as the result of excess heat.
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, off.

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