cook up

verb

1. informal.
   to concoct or invent (a story, alibi, etc)
2. to prepare (a meal), esp quickly
3. slang.
   to prepare (a drug) for use by heating, as by dissolving heroin in a spoon

noun

1. (in the Caribbean) a dish consisting of mixed meats, rice, shrimps, and sometimes vegetables

Idioms and Phrases

Fabricate, concoct, as in She's always cooking up some excuse . [ Colloquial ; mid-1700s]

Example Sentences

Therefore, he started hiring vendors like a “papusa lady” and a pizza guy to come and cook up made-to-order snacks.

From The Daily Beast

Where did you cook up the idea for a live showing of Real Time in Washington D.C., followed by a live televised standup special?

From The Daily Beast

Well, for starters, cook up a little fulminated mercury to blow the windows off the office where Tuco does business.

From The Daily Beast

The meals you cook up, despite their size, seem professionally made.

From The Daily Beast

Obama's team is likely to cook up some similar experiments in Charlotte.

From The Daily Beast

A little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast.

From Project Gutenberg

We intended to travel on all that night and lay by the next day in the forest and cook up our pigs.

From Project Gutenberg

I can cook up a story about you and the young lady escaping one dark night, when we reach port.

From Project Gutenberg

I can cook up some grub for supper and then you can turn in.

From Project Gutenberg

He thought me cad enough to cook up some plot, and contrive to marry the girl behind his back—for her millions.

From Project Gutenberg