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Cook up   /kʊk əp/   Listen
Cook up

verb
1.
Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients.  Synonym: concoct.
2.
Make up something artificial or untrue.  Synonyms: fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture.






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"Cook up" Quotes from Famous Books



... o'clock. This is the slackest place I ever knew. I shall talk to Morton and see if things can't be altered. Just go and rouse that cook up. I've got ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum

... mind, Lady Yva," said Bastin, "I think I should like to get out of this place, interesting as it is. I have food to cook up above and lots of things to attend to, especially as I understand I am to come back here tomorrow. Would you mind showing me the way to that ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

... had the idea that you needed a finer edge put on your rowing spirit. So I got Jane to cook up the story about that ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... money, but he didn't spare it here: this was his ship cabin when he started on his last voyage. It looked funny—a man with all his land and houses cooped up in a place like this; but he wanted to be independent of the women. He hated to have 'em fussin' around him. He had a woman to come and cook up stuff for him to help himself to; but she wouldn't stay here overnight, nor he wouldn't let her. As for a man in the house,—most men were thieves, he thought, or waiting their chance to be. It was real pitiful the way ...
— The Desert and The Sown • Mary Hallock Foote

... story abroad is, that they are trying to cook up a match for the King with a Princess of Tour and Taxis (I believe a sister of the Duchess of Cumberland), and a sister of the Princess Esterhazy. Metternich is at the bottom of it. Query, whether Lady C—— will ...
— Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) - From the Original Family Documents • Duke of Buckingham and Chandos



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