(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating. / (transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).

(idiomatic) Functioning particularly effectively; achieving something substantial. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cook, with, gas.

(idiomatic) To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally. / (idiomatic, by extension) To falsify an account of an event.

(informal) A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cook up

present participle of cook up

A cook who specializes in fried foods.

Any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food

(transitive, US, military) To pull the pin from a grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing.

A small butane torch for use in the kitchen for browning foods.