chefnoun/ʃɛf/

• 1

  The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household.

  • The Chef's peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
• 2

  The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.

  • The cause of the disturbance, it appeared, was the angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
• 3

  Any cook.

  • My partner is the chef of the household, while I do most of the cleaning.
• 4

  slangOne who manufactures illegal drugs; a cook.

  • But trying to stop all the nation's meth chefs makes as much sense as building a wall along the Mexican border.
  • Owsley Stanley, the world's most exacting and prolific LSD chef who supplied the majority of America's West Coast with LSD in the 1960s, claimed he made so much acid not because he wanted to change the world, but rather because it was almost impossible not to make vast quantities of the drug once the synthesis had been embarked upon.
• 5

  historicalA reliquary in the shape of a head.

chefverb/ʃɛf/

• 1

  informalTo work as a chef; to prepare and cook food professionally.

  • It was Brick who talked on alumni relations with the active chapters and who cheffed at our steak fry (more of that later) and Mrs. Cowles who took over […]
  • I cheffed part-time at a nice restaurant in town.
• 2

  To stab with a knife, to shank.

  • He got cheffed up proper.
  • Still on my knife work chef him up with that rambo
• 3

  To impress others.

  • thinkin' that I be cheffin'.'