Cooked / Getting Cooked

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Cooked, also known as Getting Cooked, is a slang term used in a manner similar to the term roasted. The word is typically used to describe someone getting mocked or insulted, as well as something being bad or disappointing. A prevalent catchphrase using the term was uttered by boxer Adrian Broner when he said "I ain't gon' lie, I'm getting cooked" in 2019. The term grew in virality online in the late 2010s as it spread on social media. "Cooked" also means to "get high" on marijuana in some contexts.

Origin

Early colloquial uses of the phrase "getting cooked" can be traced as far back as the year 2009, with several X users using the expression "getting cooked" in order to refer to sports matches and losses.^[1]^[2] An Urban Dictionary definition posted on December 2nd, 2016, by user tvdropper defined the word "cooked" as "a way of describing a scenario, person or object in an extremely negative way" (seen below).^[3]

Spread

An April 24th, 2018, post by X^[4] user @EricFawcett_ was captioned, "Oklahoma City is really getting cooked out here by Toby Flenderson," gathering over 80,000 likes in five years (seen below).

An example of the phrase "got cooked" being used in a manner similar to "got roasted" is a September 5th, 2018, post by X account @WildNOut,^[5] which gathered over 2,000 likes on the post in five years (seen below).

Each cast member dished out their best burns during Got Damned, lighting eachother up to oblivion! 😂 Who got cooked the worse? #WildNOut pic.twitter.com/0XGUL2A9hr

— Wild 'N Out (@WildNOut) September 5, 2018

On July 21st, 2019, the YouTube^[8] channel FightHype.com posted an interview with American boxer Adrian Broner in which he can be heard saying, "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, I ain't gon' lie I'm getting cooked." The upload gathered over 570,000 views in four years (seen below).

An August 9th, 2023, post by X^[6] user @insultsrare was captioned, "getting cooked by the police is crazy 😭." The post gathered over 40,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on August 9th, X^[7] user @OvOBrezzzy posted a tweet in reference to the "xQc Reaction Content Controversy," saying, "They mad at xQc but bro really cooked him crazy 😭😭I would be embarrassed to post this." The post gathered over 14,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).