cook up

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Verb

cook up

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see cook, up
2. (informal) To prepare food by cooking.

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

3. (idiomatic, figuratively) To manufacture; to fabricate; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.

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

4. (slang) To prepare a heroin dose by heating.
5. (slang) To manufacture a significant amount of illegal drugs (LSD, meth, etc.)

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