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Definition of Cook up
1. Verb. Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients. "Concoct a strange mixture"
Category relationships: Cookery, Cooking, Preparation
Generic synonyms: Cook, Fix, Make, Prepare, Ready
Derivative terms: Concoction, Concoction
2. Verb. Make up something artificial or untrue.
Generic synonyms: Concoct, Dream Up, Hatch, Think Of, Think Up
Specialized synonyms: Mythologise, Mythologize, Confabulate, Concoct, Trump Up, Spin, Vamp, Vamp Up
Derivative terms: Fabrication, Fabrication, Fabricator, Invention
Definition of Cook up
1. Verb. (idiomatic figuratively) To manufacture; to fabricate; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie. ¹
2. Verb. (slang) To prepare a heroin dose by heating. ¹
3. Verb. (slang) To prepare a meal. ¹
4. Verb. (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cook Up
Literary usage of Cook up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man: Being a New and by Nicolas Gouin Dufief (1834)
"To cook up. Arrêter. To take up. Arriver. To turn up. S'associer. To take up.
... Vous arrangez ce conte-là bien plaisamment. You cook up that story very ..."
2. Camping Out by Warren Hastings Miller (1918)
"Then we cook up a hearty breakfast of coffee, fish, potatoes, bread and fruit.
... About four o'clock we cook up a great feed, of meat stew, rice, tea, ..."
3. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1842)
"IT is not, I believe, an unusual thing for families of a prudent and economical
turn, occasionally to cook up a dish of odds and ends. ..."
4. Rigby's Reliable Candy Teacher: With Complete and Modern Soda, Ice Cream and by Will O. Rigby, Fred Rigby (1920)
"It is never satisfactory in hard goods because of its tendency to cook up dark.
On the other hand beet sugar can be used more satisfactorily in a vacuum ..."
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