whip up

[whip up] {v.}, {informal}

1. To make or do quickly or easily.

* /Mary whipped up a lunch for the picnic./

* /The reporter whipped up a story about the fire for his paper./

2. To make active; stir to action; excite.

* /The girls are trying to whip up interest for a dance Saturday night./

Compare: STIR UP, WHOOP IT UP(2).

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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