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rustle up

verb

to prepare (a meal, snack, etc) rapidly, esp at short notice
to forage for and obtain

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Idioms and Phrases

Get together food or some other needed item with some effort, as in I don't know what we have but I'll rustle up a meal somehow , or You boys need to rustle up some wood for a campfire . The verb rustle here means “to assemble in a hurry.” [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Wisht I c'd git off the dock an' rustle up another drink somewheres.

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Rustle up the grog, call McGuffey up out of the engine room, and we'll hold the meetin'.

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I've got some men waitin' on me, but I'll have to rustle up the balance wherever I can git 'em.

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There was a rustle up the staircase, and he was alone in the library, to take himself home as he might.

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Neither heard a little rustle up the bluff in the leafy bushes.

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