cook-up
noun1
A get-together for the purposes of cooking, especially one that produces large quantities of food.
- Related terms
- cook-up rice
cook up
verbalso spelled cook-up1
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.
1 more example
- Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.
2
Figuratively 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.
2 more examples
- For more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cooking up a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place.2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
- "RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]".2021 September 8, “RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:
3
Slang To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
4
Slang To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.
- Derived terms
- cook up a storm