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cook up
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Princeton's WordNet
concoct, cook upverb
prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
"concoct a strange mixture"
fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, inventverb
make up something artificial or untrue
Wiktionary
cook upverb
To manufacture; to fabricate; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.
cook upverb
To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
cook upverb
To prepare a meal.
cook upverb
To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.)
Wikipedia
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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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.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cook up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cook up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The White House has made fools of their allies in the House of Representatives in the way they've handled this, they cook up some intelligence. They bring the chairman of the committee -- a very distinguished position which he has tarnished -- they use him as a tool to tell him what they have cooked up, now you go tell the President what we have cooked up and try to represent to the American people that this is legitimate intelligence.
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