what's cooking Idiom
what's cooking
what is happening, what's going down What's cooking with the kids? They're too quiet.
What's cooking?
When you ask what's cooking it means you want to know what's happening.
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slang What is happening or planned; what is wrong.

Often used as a greeting.
"What's up?" asked Bob as he joined his friends. "Are you going to the movies?" What's cooking? Why is the crowd in the street? What's doing tonight at the club? Hello Bob, what's up? Compare: WHAT'S WITH.
what's cooking
What's activity on? What's happening? ("Cooking" is generally colloquially beneath to "cookin'.) So what's affable these days? How accept you been? Hey, what's cookin', everyone?Learn more: cookWhat'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 accident with you?what's cooking
Also, what's new (with you); what's up; what gives. What's activity on, what is happening, as in What's affable at the appointment these days? or What's new at your house? or Why are all those cars honking their horns? What's up? or Are you absolutely activity to France abutting week? What gives? The aboriginal expression, argot from about 1940, transfers the action of advancing aliment to added processes. The aboriginal variant, a adaptation of "what account are there," dates from the aforementioned aeon and was accustomed added bill by a accepted blur and song, What's New, Pussycat? (1965); the appellation itself became an argot for a time, what's new, pussycat? The additional variant, a argot from the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s, acquired bill in the 1940s from Bugs Bunny cartoons in which the aerial again says "What's up, Doc?" The aftermost variant, what gives, may acquire from the German equivalent, Was gibt's? Argot from about 1940, it is additionally acclimated to beggarly "how are you," as in Hello Jack-what gives? Additionally see what's with. Learn more: cookwhat’s ˈcooking?
(informal) what is actuality done or planned: What’s affable in here? You all attending actual guilty!