cook up

Meaning

1. To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
2. To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
3. (slang) To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
4. (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, methamphetamine, etc.).
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, up.

Synonyms

concoct

manufacture

fabricate

invent

make up

trump up

contrive

cook

🧑‍🍳

figure out

find

🔍

fix

give birth

groom

make

prepare

produce

rig

think

🤔

think of

think up

turn out

vamp

vamp up

build

knock together

confection

create

devise

discover

dress

👗

elaborate

excogitate