(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.

simple past tense and past participle of cook up

(countable, chiefly US) A cooking contest. / (chemistry, military) Accidental detonation of explosives, especially as the result of excessive heat.

Partially or completely cooked in advance.

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

(archaic) A cook who can prepare various ordinary dishes but who has no particular specialism or expertise.

plural of plain cook

plural of cook out

Cooked under individual supervision rather than by a fixed industrial process.