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Definition 2024
cook_up
cook up
See also: cook-up
English
Verb
cook up (third-person singular simple present cooks up, present participle cooking up, simple past and past participle cooked up)
- (informal) To prepare a meal.
- Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.
- (idiomatic, figuratively) To manufacture; to fabricate; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.
- He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.
- (slang) To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
- (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.)