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

In this podcast, Mariah discusses its historic and cultural significance and asks her grandmother, who was born and raised on the Navajo reservation, to cook up some frybread and share her memories. —Steve Drummond, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025

Following the success of its popular $2 Personal Pan Pizza deals on Tuesdays, Pizza Hut has cooked up another weekly promotion customers can take advantage of. —Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025

What horrible family misfortune has Ingelsby cooked up this time? —Megan McCluskey, Time, 8 Sep. 2025

Upgrade is handling Hyena sales and will look to cook up deals at the fall markets. —Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for cook up

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