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Cook up
(of food or chemical substances) To prepare by cooking or heating.
📖 Definitions of "Cook up"
verb
- 1
(of food or chemical substances) To prepare by cooking or heating.
"Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go."
- 2
To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).
"He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster."
- 3
To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
- 4
To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.)
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