well-baked

adjective

Fully developed through work, thought, or planning; refined

Meanings

adjectivewell-baked (comparative more well-baked, superlative most well-baked)

comparative more well-baked · superlative most well-baked

  1. Fully developed through work, thought, or planning; refined

    I just want to start this post by saying that this is more of a product of a thought experiment of mine, not a well-baked theory.

    2010 January 22, Ste, “The nature of Gravity?”, in sci.physics.relativity (Usenet)
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    How is it possible, then, for Bobby Caldwell to make hard-rock records like Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer one day, and sing well-baked disco ballads the next?

    1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 355

    The current ports/pkg relationship is still fragile, perhaps because it's new. [...] Contrast this with the Ubuntu world, where there is a well-baked "unattended-upgrades" option that automatically downloads and upgrades all security updates for both the OS and all third-party packages.

    2016 February 12, Torsten Zuehlsdorff, “Removing documentation”, in muc.lists.freebsd.ports (Usenet)

Origin

Probably conceived in opposition to half-baked

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