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View synonyms for cook up

cook up

verb

  1. informal.
    to concoct or invent (a story, alibi, etc)
  2. to prepare (a meal), esp quickly
  3. slang.
    to prepare (a drug) for use by heating, as by dissolving heroin in a spoon
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. (in the Caribbean) a dish consisting of mixed meats, rice, shrimps, and sometimes vegetables
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Fabricate, concoct, as in She's always cooking up some excuse . [ Colloquial ; mid-1700s]
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Example Sentences

Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.

Where did you cook up the idea for a live showing of Real Time in Washington D.C., followed by a live televised standup special?

Well, for starters, cook up a little fulminated mercury to blow the windows off the office where Tuco does business.

The meals you cook up, despite their size, seem professionally made.

Obama's team is likely to cook up some similar experiments in Charlotte.

A little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast.

We intended to travel on all that night and lay by the next day in the forest and cook up our pigs.

I can cook up a story about you and the young lady escaping one dark night, when we reach port.

I can cook up some grub for supper and then you can turn in.

He thought me cad enough to cook up some plot, and contrive to marry the girl behind his back—for her millions.

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