Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. exhausted, finished, destroyed, in serious trouble.

1848		‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 13 Feb. 3/3: I've had the distemper cruel bad to be sure; but [...] I thought I was cooked once though.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 45‘: How are you off for soap?’ I said to Patchley [...] ‘I’m cooked,’ he said [...] ‘I am penniless’.
1870		Old Hunks in Darkey Drama 5 52: He’s cooked, dough now.
1894		J. Astley Fifty Years (2nd edn) I 59: I was bound to go on, notwithstanding the grey was about cooked.
1897		E.W. Townsend Chimmie Fadden 35: I [...] pegged de coachman’s kid in de jaw for stringing me on being cooked.
1903		J. Furphy Such is Life 92: I got my eyes cooked workin’ at a thresher.
1913		A. Lunn Harrovians 88: They were utterly cooked. They had ceased to have any conscious control of their muscles.
1929		E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 272: Lorry felt he was cooked for sure this time, but could see no way out.
1931		(con. 1910s) C.W. Willemse Behind The Green Lights 171: If we grab the daughter and the mother, we’re cooked.
1949		W.R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle in Four Novels (1984) 200: If it’s for us [...] we’re close to cooked anyway. Let’s take a chance.
1951		K. Williams Diaries 6 May 63: To Festival [of Britain] with John. It’s all madly educative and very tiring. Beautifully cooked.
1967		R. Daley Only a Game 12: He sweeps left end for twelve yards. [...] The Lions are cooked now.
1989		R. Dahl Rhyme Stew (1990) 25: ‘I’m cooked!’ the Hare yelled out. ‘I’m done!’.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 213: I’m done with that [...] I’m cooked.
2001		J. Stahl Plainclothes Naked (2002) 151: I’m tellin’ you, they check the rent computer, we’re cooked.
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] We’re cooked baby, done [...] every crooked motherfucker in this country will turn us over.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I was bloody cooked after three training sessions and a full day of work.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 231: If Nick keeps the cache [i.e. of stolen goods] he’s cooked.
2021		Betoota-isms 260: ‘After a weekend sinking Jim Beams in Bathurst, I came home on Monday cooked as a crumpet’.

2. (US) drunk.

1920		A. Baer Putting ’Em Over 11 May [synd. col.] The boys are taking Cook’s Tours in order to get cooked.
1925		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 25 July [synd. col.] Every time she gets cooked she comes round here with her fancy husband.
1932		W.R. Burnett Giant Swing 48: ‘Not long ago I got cooked and asked a dame to marry me; but she didn’t hear me. First break I’ve had in a long time’.
1944		J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 72: Another bum cooked on canned heat.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS.
1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 59: Marshall, Frane, and the third man at the table [...] all looked cooked.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 189: Old gobble guts is cooked to perfection (the turkey, not Dad — he’s only pickled).

3. (US) intoxicated by a drug.

1993		Eble Campus Sl. Oct.
1994		G. Pelecanos Shoedog 65: [C]ooked on Schlitz and paint fumes [...] got his head tore off by a crane.
2001		G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 43: She’d be [...] cooked on crank and drunk as a sailor on shore leave.