cook up

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

Well, the internet cooked up the idea that the chant originated from late-1800s and early-1900s imagery and stories that depicted Black children being used as bait to catch alligators. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026

Tucked away near Lucille Ball’s former dressing room, nestled between soundstages on the Paramount lot is the office where John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein cook up many of their big-screen adventures. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026

Get Jiro is ready to cook up thrills with an adaptation of the late Anthony Bourdain‘s work. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2026

DeMarco Williams Calle Dragones Miami is a Cuban-Asian fusion restaurant doubling as a concert venue that cooks up fun on a nightly basis. — Demarco Williams, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for cook up

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