Meaning & use

Baked

adjective·Everyday

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Cooked by dry heat in an oven, without direct exposure to a flame.

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The kitchen smelled of freshly baked bread.

She served baked potatoes alongside the roast chicken.

A note on using this word

In informal slang, 'baked' also means intoxicated by marijuana, a usage first popular in the 1930s–40s.

Words with a similar meaning

roasted

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Another way to use it

2. adjective

Slang for being under the influence of marijuana.

He was so baked he could barely remember the movie's plot.

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