"cook up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-cook up.ogg Forms: cooks up [present, singular, third-person], cooking up [participle, present], cooked up [participle, past], cooked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cook up (third-person singular simple present cooks up, present participle cooking up, simple past and past participle cooked up)
  1. (transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Cooking, Food and drink
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-8YwXAHM0 Disambiguation of Cooking: 53 9 12 9 16 Disambiguation of Food and drink: 100 0 0 0 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "up", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 7 6 22 3 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "up": 58 8 9 15 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 65 9 8 13 5 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 5 6 9 4
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something). Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-KSgmDQbs
  3. (slang) To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb--5S1sCm8
  4. (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.). Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-zSGB6bUy
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up. Derived forms: cook up a storm
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-UTG~FpIL

Inflected forms

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      "form": "cooked up",
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          "text": "Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.",
          "type": "example"
        }
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        "To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating."
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        "(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating."
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          "text": "Troponym: whip up"
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        },
        {
          "text": "He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 September 8, “RMT on \"war footing\" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:",
          "text": "\"RMT will not sit back while this carve-up of the rail network is cooked up in company boardrooms. [...]\".",
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        "(transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something)."
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        },
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        "(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating."
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          "ref": "2021 September 8, “RMT on \"war footing\" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:",
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up."
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