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cooked up

cooked up is the simple past and past participle of cook up.

Meaning of cook up

Verb

cook up (third-person singular simple present cooks up, present participle cooking up, simple past and past participle cooked up)

  1. (transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
    • Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
    • The financiers cooked up an instrument called a collateralized debt obligation.
  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.

Questions about cooked up

What is cooked up the simple past and past participle of?
Cooked up is the simple past and past participle of cook up.

Words near cooked up in the dictionary

  1. cooked off
  2. cooked out
  3. cooked someone's goose
  4. cooked the books
  5. cooked through
  6. cooked up
  7. cooked up a storm
  8. cookedness
  9. cookee
  10. cookees
  11. cookeite

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