Meaning of cook up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
   transitive
2. To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
   figuratively, transitive
3. To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
   slang
4. To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
   slang
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".”

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