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cook up

verb

Meaning

  • (of food or chemical substances) To prepare by cooking or heating.

    "Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go."

  • To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).

    "He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster."

  • To prepare a heroin dose by heating.

  • To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.)