Gate : adj. Cooked on the grill.
It's a toasted affair, it's toasted: it's over, it's over.
Grilled: A case is grilled when nothing more can be drawn from it. An agent is toasted when he is unmasked by those he is chained to pursue (thieves' slang).
To be toasted: to be in prison (allusion to the prison gate).
To be toasted: to be preceded by another.
Agent, policeman unmasked.
Have a very bad reputation.
Be ahead of another.
Grilled case; from which nothing can be learned.