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cooks up

cooks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 cooks up

What is cooks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cooks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cook up.

Words near cooks up in the dictionary

  1. cooks out
  2. cooks someone's goose
  3. Cooks syndrome
  4. cooks the books
  5. cooks through
  6. cooks up
  7. cooks up a storm
  8. Cooksbridge
  9. cookset
  10. cooksets
  11. Cooksey

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