cookoff

or cook-off

[ kook-awf, -of ]

noun

1. a cooking cooking cook contest in which competitors gather to prepare their specialties.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookoff¹

First recorded in 1955–60; cook ¹ + -off

Example Sentences

Those events feature a mesquite pancake cookoff, using the fresh flour.

From Salon

Which is why, in the grand tradition of Binging with Babish, I figured I’d offer some ideas on how to improve the next batch and maybe rank Onyx in the next cookoff: Add flavor.

From The Verge

Last December, an elderly former anchor-out who had lost his boat pitched a tent near Dunphy Park, a waterfront patch of grass with a gazebo where Sausalito holds its annual Fourth of July chili cookoff.

From Los Angeles Times

The Valenzuela, who, almost as soon as he arrived in West Texas, Elvia Hernandez, president of the Midland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, invited him to the city’s annual menudo cookoff.

From Los Angeles Times

To this day, his taxidermied body lies in state in a wood-and-velvet casket at the courthouse in Eastland, where there’s an annual Rips Ribs Cookoff and RipFest parade.

From Los Angeles Times