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cook up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. concoct, cook upverb

    prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

    "concoct a strange mixture"

  2. fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, inventverb

    make up something artificial or untrue

Wiktionary

  1. cook upverb

    To manufacture; to fabricate; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.

  2. cook upverb

    To prepare a heroin dose by heating.

  3. cook upverb

    To prepare a meal.

  4. cook upverb

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

Wikipedia

  1. cook up

    Hood Baby is the debut studio album by American rapper Lil Gotit. It was released on November 16, 2018, by Alamo Records.

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  1. cook up

    "Cook up" is an idiomatic phrase which generally means to concoct or prepare something, especially quickly or spontaneously. This could refer to not only preparing a physical meal but also creating a plan, a story, an excuse, or a scheme. Essentially, it means to create something, usually in a hurried or inventive manner.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cook up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cook up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cook up in a Sentence

  1. John Kobal:

    I’m Italian, so I made it a point to cook up a big pot of spaghetti for her, she had a physical therapist come in every day, but no one had thought about food. So she was very taken with that. She said, ‘My neighbors would never have done this for me.’ So I was just happy to help out.

  2. Dana Perino:

    One of the best gifts I ever got [as a child] was a play kitchen, complete with an oven, pots and pans, i already had the imagination I needed to cook up delicious meals for all my dolls and stuffed-animal friends. I also had a ‘Sesame Street' playhouse that would unfold, and I was right there with Big Bird and all the other residents hanging out on the steps of the best neighborhood in the world. It was amazing to live on a block where I could have so many friends.

  3. Paul. F. Meekin:

    What's important for me when I teach is to communicate 'to cook up' the visions, smells, tastes and sounds of the time with my young audience. Hopefully, I am imparting 'feeding them' what's important about that period of History. I want my students to taste a respect for the information 'the food' and to know about the cooks, the restaurants, and how the ingredients of time comes together to form a real banquet of History.

  4. Barbara Hall:

    It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind.

  5. Andy Winmill:

    We have been working closely with one local primary school, so we using their kitchen to cook up the stuff provided by Hampton Manor, some businesses are just having to shut down, but it's exciting to see business getting creative in how they can survive.

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