cook up
verb- 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.
- To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something). · 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.
- To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
- To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.
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