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cook up en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.
Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.
To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.
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(figuratively, transitive) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.
The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.
"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".
2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:For more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cooking up a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place.
2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
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(slang) To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
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(slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.
Forms
Deriveds
cook up a storm
Relateds
whip up