cook sth up
informal — phrasal verb with cook /kʊk/ verbDefinition
› to invent a story, plan, etc., usually dishonestly: She'd cooked up some weird scheme that was going to earn her a fortune. I had to cook up an excuse about my car breaking down.Cheating and trickingPlotting and trapping
(Definition of cook sth up from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a numbers game idiom
- bamboozle verb
- blackmail verb
- bullshit verb
- casuistry noun
- deceive verb
- fiddle noun (DISHONEST BEHAVIOUR)
- fiddle verb (CHEAT)
- flannel verb
- hocus-pocus noun
- hoodwink verb
- impersonate verb
- jape noun
- jiggery-pokery noun
- put sb on phrasal verb
- put sth across/over sb phrasal verb
- racket noun (CRIME)
- rip sb off phrasal verb
- rook verb
- ruse noun
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