VERB
- concoct something artificial or untrue
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prepare or cook by mixing ingredients
concoct a strange mixture
How To Use cook up In A Sentence
- Cash will be the vital ingredient as celebrity chefs cook up a special fundraising treat for charity.
- Can you cook up a simple egg dish for us right away?
- The blinkered tendency to derive all-encompassing, universal answers has dumbed down semantic questions, eclipsed interpretative discussion and blinded scholarship to the ways in which context could cook up hermeneutic content.
- Cook up agricultural and local council biowaste, get syngas for fuel, and bury the charcoal.
- Others questioned myriad technical claims and suppositions in the report that led to the government's conclusion that the trailers were germ labs that could be used to cook up anthrax or other bioweapons.
- It was obvious his agent was trying to cook up a 10m offer but we called his bluff and his game soon went off the boil. The Sun
- These are two aggressive players who could cook up something of a classic. Times, Sunday Times
- Evvy place whar dey was a-goin 'to celebrate tuk time off to cook up a lot of tasty eatments,' specially to barbecue plenty of good meat. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
- Can you cook up a simple egg dish for us right away?
- I had to cook up an excuse about my car breaking down.