(slang) To prepare (heroin, opium, crack, or meth) by heating or otherwise manufacturing.
Owsley Stanley started cooking up those famous purple LSD tabs.
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(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating.
Let me cook up some eggs and bacon before you go.
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(transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood); to counterfeit (something).
To cook up a batch of biodiesel, scientists stir together methanol and vegetable fat.
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