serve up

Verb

serve up (third-person singular simple present serves up, present participle serving up, simple past and past participle served up)

1. (transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve.
   • She serves up pizza at nights.
   • let these remain upon a slow fire until they are well set, then break over them seven or eight eggs, as for poaching, and add salt and pepper; cook gently until the yolks are set, but not hard, brown with a salamander, and serve up.1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 87
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To provide; deliver; inflict; impose.
   • The cloud storage provider serves up server space.
   • Kyle serves up heroin in northside.
3. (transitive) To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted.
   • He thought he was about to score, but he served it up to the other team.
   • West served up another fungo pass which Ulrichs flagrantly stole from Minisi on the 4.1946 September 13, Lee A Gould, “Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47