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cook up

verb

  1. informalĢżto concoct or invent (a story, alibi, etc)

  2. to prepare (a meal), esp quickly

  3. slangĢżto prepare (a drug) for use by heating, as by dissolving heroin in a spoon

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. (in the Caribbean) a dish consisting of mixed meats, rice, shrimps, and sometimes vegetables

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Idioms and Phrases

Fabricate, concoct, as in She's always cooking up some excuse. [Colloquial; mid-1700s]
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Madhusudhan says that does nothing to disprove his hypothesis; comets are known to be little laboratories that can cook up all sorts of unlikely things.

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One adviser reportedly told Hegseth that he didn't believe a word of the Cabinet member's justifications for the firings, alleging that the former Fox News host cooked up the story to win an intra-office struggle.

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The espionage terror the ā€œMission: Impossibleā€ films have cooked up has come to reap.

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Marko BoŔnjak, meanwhile, is cooking up a Poison Cake to feed to his tormentors - chiefly the people who bombarded him with homophobic hate messages after he was selected to represent Croatia.

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ā€œIt’s time that we show the people what we was cooking up.ā€

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