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Cook up

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating. transitive

    "Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go."

  2. 2
    concoct something artificial or untrue wordnet
  3. 3
    To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something). figuratively, transitive

    "The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation."

  4. 4
    prepare or cook by mixing ingredients wordnet
  5. 5
    To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing. slang
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  1. 6
    To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.). slang
  2. 7
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.

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