cooks up
Hatches a plan
To cook up is to prepare food, but more often it means to devise or concoct something—typically a scheme, story, or excuse: They cooked up a plan to skip school, What excuse did he cook up this time?
The phrase suggests improvisation or fabrication, often with a hint of deception or mischief.
- concoctInvent or devise
- createsBrings into being
- whip upCreate hastily
- deviseCreate through ingenuity
- dream upInvent through imagination
invent · contrive · prepare · from scratch · short order · fabricate · improvise · falsify · deceive · tall tale · cover story · makes up · hatches · chef · makes · mislead · scheme · plot
creation vs. discovery
cooks updiscovers
Finds something previously unknown
uncovers · finds · stumbles upon · comes across · detects
cook, cooks, cooked, cooking, cooker, cookers, cookery, cookbook, cookbooks