cook up

phrasal verb

cooked up; cooking up; cooks up

1

: to prepare (food) for eating especially quickly

I can cook up some hamburgers.

He cooked this whole meal up in less than 30 minutes.

2

: to invent (something, such as an idea, excuse, etc.) to deal with a particular situation

They cooked up a scheme to fool their neighbor.

You'll have to cook an excuse up quickly.

Examples of cook up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One of the major ingredients of every season of The Bear is a long list of surprise guest stars, and season 4 cooks up yet another impressive roster of big names. —EW.com, 26 June 2025

The same probably goes for anyone who cooks up a great TV series and then tries to keep the ingredients fresh. —Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 June 2025

The base model stands directly on the ground and does not include the disc skillet, while the deluxe version includes both the skillet and a tripod with height-adjustable legs for raising the heat and cooking up off the ground. —New Atlas, 24 June 2025

Lauder recalled as a little boy watching his mother cook up facial creams. —Pete Born, Footwear News, 15 June 2025

Rhymes for cook up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup