Sekirov Dictionary

cook up

verb 4
cook-up noun 1
forms 4

verb4

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To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
- 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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(figurative) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
- The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.
- He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.
(slang) To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
(slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).

cook-up noun1

A get-together for the purposes of cooking, especially one that produces large quantities of food.

forms

cooked up · cooking up · cooks up · cook-ups

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