cooked
doomed, resigned, darkly funny
the one-line answer
Done for, doomed, exhausted, or in a very bad situation.
"Cooked" means you are in serious trouble or something has gone badly wrong with no obvious way out. It started in gaming (your team is cooked means you are losing badly) and spread to every context where things go wrong. A missed deadline, a failed exam, a bad date, a ruined plan. All cooked.
mainstream
Your coworker might use this word.
01 / in the wild
hear it move.
verdict
bro missed the deadline and the exam is tomorrow. he's cooked.
He is in serious trouble with no good options.
gaming, twitch
chat am I cooked
Asking the audience whether the situation is salvageable.
gaming
nah we're not cooked bro we still got this
Refusal to accept defeat. Usually optimistic delusion.
verdict
the interview went so bad I am fully cooked.
The interview was a disaster and the job is likely lost.
02 / mutations
03 / don't confuse
similar, not the same.
cooked
Cooked is the opposite of locked in
vs
locked-in
Locked in means focused and winning.
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