Usually means: Create or devise plan, story.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. cook up: Merriam-Webster
  2. cook up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cook up: Vocabulary.com
  4. cook-up: Wordnik
  5. cook-up, cook up: Wiktionary
  6. cook up: Dictionary.com
  7. cook up: Rhymezone
  8. cook up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. cook up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. cook up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. cook up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cook up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cook up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cook up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cook up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cook up)

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

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