rustle up
phrasal verb
rustled up; rustling up; rustles up
informal
1
: to prepare (food, a meal, etc.) quickly
He rustled up a full meal in no time.
2
: to find or get (something)
I'll see if I can rustle some information up for you.
Examples of rustle up in a Sentence
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Boxer and his team rustle up ingredients from the verdant surrounding area in a veg-forward menu.
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Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
Details are scarce, but the powerhouse cast and A24 backing mean this one will have little trouble rustling up pre-sales.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
Hit with an ultimatum to find a £250,000 bond in two days or be booted out of the Conference League, the club’s then-owners could rustle up £150,000 but no more.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
Costner's Dutton, who appears in earlier footage, is prominently featured in the new trailer to rustle up viewers for its Paramount Network return on Nov. 10 (8 EST/PST).
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
But by the eighteen-forties, when a German immigrant to America named Joseph Faber devised a non-fraudulent and actually rather ingenious speaking machine, not even P. T. Barnum, who dubbed it the Euphonia, could rustle up much interest.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
One was instructed to rustle up money from gamblers, another from the Hungarian and Romanian communities.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Despite an unspectacular 4-8 finish last season, Coach Prime’s charges remain in high demand, so much so that Fox was not able to rustle up a space for the team on its primetime schedule.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 June 2024
If a copy of the collection proves difficult to rustle up, settle for another wonderful entry from Borges's oeuvre—Ficciones, surrealist short stories, might bear the closest resemblance.
—Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2024
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Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
Details are scarce, but the powerhouse cast and A24 backing mean this one will have little trouble rustling up pre-sales.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
Hit with an ultimatum to find a £250,000 bond in two days or be booted out of the Conference League, the club’s then-owners could rustle up £150,000 but no more.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
Costner's Dutton, who appears in earlier footage, is prominently featured in the new trailer to rustle up viewers for its Paramount Network return on Nov. 10 (8 EST/PST).
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
But by the eighteen-forties, when a German immigrant to America named Joseph Faber devised a non-fraudulent and actually rather ingenious speaking machine, not even P. T. Barnum, who dubbed it the Euphonia, could rustle up much interest.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
One was instructed to rustle up money from gamblers, another from the Hungarian and Romanian communities.
—Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
Despite an unspectacular 4-8 finish last season, Coach Prime’s charges remain in high demand, so much so that Fox was not able to rustle up a space for the team on its primetime schedule.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 14 June 2024
If a copy of the collection proves difficult to rustle up, settle for another wonderful entry from Borges's oeuvre—Ficciones, surrealist short stories, might bear the closest resemblance.
—Julian Manning, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2024
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“Rustle up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rustle%20up. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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