Idiom
what's cooking
Meaning
A greeting, similar to how are you?; what's happening?; what's up?; what's new?
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Hey, what's cooking? I haven't seen you in ages.”
“He walked into the kitchen, saw his friends chatting, and asked, 'So, what's cooking?'”
“The old man leaned against the fence, tipped his hat, and called out, 'What's cooking, neighbor?' — a greeting unchanged since their youth.”
Examples
simple
“Hey, what's cooking? I haven't seen you in ages.”
contextual
“He walked into the kitchen, saw his friends chatting, and asked, 'So, what's cooking?'”
complex
“The old man leaned against the fence, tipped his hat, and called out, 'What's cooking, neighbor?' — a greeting unchanged since their youth.”
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