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dish up

vb. To serve cooked food; to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc. and put in dishes to be served at table.

WordNet
dish up

v. provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show" [syn: serve, serve up, dish out, dish]

Usage examples of "dish up".

I was free to wash dishes again, free to smash baggage, carry a waiter's tray, dish up chile beans as a counterman.

Pao Kung lifted the dish up to his ear and asked again, 'Soul of the dish, speak to me.

I had spent weeks carefully installing, calibrating and orienting the satellite-type microwave dish up there-the one that had transmitted the Morse code signals that blew up the other missiles at Vanderhoff, dry runs to practice for the big event tomorrow.

He spat the mouthful and grinned at Tungata, then held the dish up before his face.

Slanted walls of treated glass formed a peak and would afford the CEO a three hundred sixty degree view of the city and people she loved to dish up in her paper.

Dahlia was taken aback herself, but managed to dish up the plate lunch special and serve Bubba, Sissie, Sukie, and Hammet--who tore right into it as if he hadn't eaten in a week.

No-but if I was to, it looks like you wouldn't have to dish up anything new, he said dryly.

Sir Joseph saw them to the street door, and as soon as it closed behind them he directed his voice down the back stairs and called out 'Mrs Barlow, you may dish up as soon as you please.