cooked
v. B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈkʊkt// UK //kˈʊkt// cooked
v. in a very bad situation with no way to win or fix it. You use this when you are extremely tired, have failed completely, or are in big trouble.
v. exhausted, defeated, or facing inevitable failure. Informal in register; often used to describe a person or situation that has reached a point of no return.
I stayed up all night studying and now I am cooked.
After the manager found the errors in the financial report, the accountant knew his career at the firm was cooked.
The team was already down by thirty points with only two minutes remaining, and the exhausted players looked completely cooked as they trudged back to the bench.
From the past tense of the verb cook.
Usage
Used as a predicative adjective after a linking verb like 'be' or 'feel'.