单词 | cook up |
释义 | cook upSEE SYNONYMS FOR cook up ON THESAURUS.COM verb (tr, adverb)informal to concoct or invent (a story, alibi, etc) to prepare (a meal), esp quickly slang to prepare (a drug) for use by heating, as by dissolving heroin in a spoon noun cook-up(in the Caribbean) a dish consisting of mixed meats, rice, shrimps, and sometimes vegetables Words nearby cook upCookstown, Cook Strait, cook the books, cooktop, Cooktown orchid, cook up, cookware, cook with gas, cool, coolabah, coolamon Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with cook upcook up Fabricate, concoct, as in She's always cooking up some excuse. [Colloquial; mid-1700s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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