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To cook or dress (food, a meal) hastily; to prepare, to serve up. Also figurative. Obsolete.
To put together hastily; = to knock together 3 at phrasal verbs. Also, to prepare (food) quickly (U.S.).
transitive. spec. To prepare (a meal, snack, etc.) hastily or in an improvised manner.
transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). With together, up. To make or assemble (something) hastily, roughly, or carelessly; to put together in…