cook up

phrasal verb

cooked up; cooking up; cooks up

: to prepare (food) for eating especially quickly

I can cook up some hamburgers.

He cooked this whole meal up in less than 30 minutes.

: to invent (something, such as an idea, excuse, etc.) to deal with a particular situation

They cooked up a scheme to fool their neighbor.

You'll have to cook an excuse up quickly.

Examples of cook up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Even with restrictions, the kitchen can cook up magic — the vegan desserts here knocked it out of the park. —

Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2024 Mutant mayhem Everyone is keeping mum on the specific story Reynolds and Levy cooked up with Rhett Reese and Paul Wenick (writers and executive producers of the past two Deadpools), as well as Zeb Wells. —

EW.com, 2 July 2024 After all of those teams spend an offseason cooking up ways to stop Joe Mazzulla’s uniquely devastating scheme? —

Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024 And the latter is being utilized to cook up steaks, branzino, zucchini, and eggplant, among other plates. —

Tori Latham, Robb Report, 13 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for cook up

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