cook up

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cook up

verb cooks up · cooking up · cooked up

transitive To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating. Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.
figuratively, transitive To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something). The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.
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.).
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.

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@misc{cook_up_2026,
  title = {cook up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cook%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}