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chef

Definition

  • noun: a professional cook who usually is in charge of a kitchen in a restaurant
  • noun: a skilled cook who manages the kitchen (as of a restaurant)

Examples

  • The hotel's 'chef' trained at the finest culinary institutes in Europe.

  • He's the 'head chef' at a five-star restaurant.

  • a 'celebrity chef' with her own TV show

Movie quotes

  • (..) I want you to put the sack on the floor. Good. Now I want you to tell me everything you know about Italian food. Don't forget the name of the chef who fixed it for me. Nobody sent me. I do business for myself. So this is something... personal, is it? (..)
    1994 Léon: The Professional