rustle up

verb

1. to prepare (a meal, snack, etc) rapidly, esp at short notice
2. to forage for and obtain

Idioms and Phrases

Get together food or some other needed item with some effort, as in I don't know what we have but I'll rustle up a meal somehow , or You boys need to rustle up some wood for a campfire . The verb rustle here means “to assemble in a hurry.” [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

He has just shy of a month to rustle up another rallying cry.

From BBC

“Let’s you and me rustle up some lunch.”

From Literature

“What do you think, Cat? Could we head back home and rustle up some hot chocolate for this crew?”

From Literature

She added doctors had little option but to discharge patients as they struggled to "rustle up" carers who were willing to risk their lives for minimum wage jobs.

From BBC

The musical’s producers — including Love Productions, owners of the madly popular television series in which everyday contestants rustle up strudels and rye buns and cherry jam roly-polys — tried several songwriters.

From Washington Post