rustle up

verb

1. to prepare (a meal, snack, etc) rapidly, esp at short notice

2. to forage for and obtain

Idioms and Phrases

Get together food or some other needed item with some effort, as in I don't know what we have but I'll rustle up a meal somehow, or You boys need to rustle up some wood for a campfire. The verb rustle here means “to assemble in a hurry.” [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

Once the press gets wind that Mary’s marriage has ended, the gossip is relentless, and the one-time belle of the ball can’t rustle up so much as a small tea party.

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He has just shy of a month to rustle up another rallying cry.

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“What do you think, Cat? Could we head back home and rustle up some hot chocolate for this crew?”

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“Let’s you and me rustle up some lunch.”

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She added doctors had little option but to discharge patients as they struggled to "rustle up" carers who were willing to risk their lives for minimum wage jobs.

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