COOK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cook up mean? 

• COOK UP (verb)
  The verb COOK UP has 2 senses:

1. prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

2. concoct something artificial or untrue

  Familiarity information: COOK UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare or cook by mixing ingredients

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

concoct; cook up

Context example:

concoct a strange mixture

Hypernyms (to "cook up" is one way to...):

cook; fix; make; prepare; ready (prepare for eating by applying heat)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Concoct something artificial or untrue

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture

Hypernyms (to "cook up" is one way to...):

concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cook up"):

mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)

confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)

concoct; trump up (invent)

spin (make up a story)

vamp; vamp up (make up)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Uranus will be in a perfect position to the eclipse and will cook up a happy surprise for you immediately or within a few weeks.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Come on, an' mebbe we'll cook up something."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Venus in Pisces could cook up romance too, so think good thoughts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On this day, Mars and Uranus will cook up some stunning surprises, for Mars will be trine Uranus, the most harmonious aspect possible between two planets.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you might be hired to generate ideas or work on art or design projects, choose to meet on December 13, when Mars and Neptune will cook up a perfect atmosphere to display the depth of your creativity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)