bake off

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === bake off (third-person singular simple present bakes off, present participle baking off, simple past and past participle baked off) (transitive, cooking) To cook (something) by baking. (intransitive) To be cooked by baking. (transitive) To cook off or reduce by baking. (MLE, colloquial, intransitive) To relish one’s leisure, to hang around idly or possibly with recreational substances. Near-synonyms: chill, kick back, waste time, dawdle, putz around (MLE, slang, ambitransitive) To engage in the preparation of crack cocaine.