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    cook up
    cook something ↔ up phrasal verb (see also cook)
    1. to prepare food, especially quickly:
        Every night he cooked up a big casserole.
    2. informal to invent an excuse, reason, plan etc, especially one that is slightly dishonest or unlikely to work:
        the plan that Graham and Dempster had cooked up