cook up
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cook up (third-person singular simple present cooks up, present participle cooking up, simple past and past participle cooked up)
- (transitive) 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.
- Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.
- (transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).
- Troponym: whip up
- 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.
- 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist[1]:
- 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.
- 2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:
- "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".
- (slang) To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
- (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.