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What's cooking?
What's cooking?
Inf. What is happening?; How are you? Bob: Hi, Fred! What's cooking? Fred: How are you doing, Bob? Bob: Hi, Fred! What's cooking? Bill: Nothing. Anything happening with you?
What's cooking?
(American old-fashioned) something that you say in order to ask someone what is happening Hey, you guys, what's cooking? Are we going out for a drink or not?
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Ran | | ṙahn | Japanese |
| Esperanza | | es-pe-RAHN-thah (Spanish), es-pe-RAHN-sah (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
| Alannis | | ə-LAN-is | English (Rare) |
| Kenrick | | KEN-rik | English (Rare) |
| Mattan | | - | Biblical, Biblical Hebrew |
| Lia (1) | | LEE-ah (Italian), LEE-ə (Portuguese, Georgian) | Italian, Portuguese, Georgian, Biblical Latin |