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cook up

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Verb

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

Noun

  1. A get-together for the purposes of cooking, especially one that produces large quantities of food.

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