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

  • (..) throw all this unsold fish, which is the BBB-level of bond, in the garbage? and take the loss? No way! Being a crafty and morally honorous chef that i am... Every crappy levels of the bond i don't sell... i throw into a seafood stew. It's not old fish! It's a whole new thing! The best part is.... (..)
    2015 The Big Short
  • (..) Say that again! Collateralized Debt Obligations It's important to understand, because it's what allowed the housing crisis become a nationwide economic disaster. Here's world-famous chef Anthony Bourdain to explain. OK, I'm a chef on a Sunday-afternoon setting the menu of a big restaurant. (..)
    2015 The Big Short