"cook up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-cook up.ogg [Australia] 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: 52 9 12 10 17 Disambiguation of Food and drink: 100 0 0 0 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 6 5 35 3 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 41 8 10 30 11 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 37 6 8 44 5
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood). Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-RcnWUWqk
  3. (slang) To prepare a heroin dose by heating. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-Hk60w6c5
  4. (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.). Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-cook_up-en-verb-zSGB6bUy Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 36 6 6 47 6 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 37 6 8 44 5
  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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