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cook up

verb
  1. (of food or chemical substances) To prepare by cooking or heating.

    "Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go."

  2. To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).

    "He really cooked up a good one this time, something about an airline disaster."

  3. To prepare a heroin dose by heating.

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