cold cook

English

Noun

cold cook (plural cold cooks)

  1. (slang) An undertaker.
    • 2011, Joyce Ann, Eliza Jane, page 66:
      The three of us took a big sigh as the cold cook took the sheet and pulled it back.
    • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
      I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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