KNOCK UP


Meaning of KNOCK UP in English

transitive verb

1.

a.

(1) : to arrange or devise especially hurriedly or with little thought

decided to knock up a tennis match

: prepare quickly or without much care

knock up a meal for us — Irwin Shaw

(2) : to strike up casually

knocked up an acquaintance with a few people

b. : to knock together

two small wooden buildings, casually knocked up — Josephine Pinckney

c. : to practice informally with (as a tennis ball, shuttlecock) in warming up before a match (as in tennis, badminton, squash)

2. Britain : rouse , summon ; specifically : to cause (as by knocking at the door) to awaken or rise from sleep or rest

3.

a. : to make exhausted : knock out

hurried too fast and it knocked me up — G.M.Hopkins

b.

(1) : to put out of top condition : cause to deteriorate

too much food and idleness had knocked them up

(2) : to bring to an end : destroy

unfair competition had knocked up the once flourishing business

c. : wound , hurt

got pretty badly knocked up

if I'm killed over there — that isn't likely, I'm more of the damned sort that gets knocked up — Ellen Glasgow

4.

a. : to run up (as a score) : make , achieve

knocking up a good score

b. Britain : to receive as income or salary : earn , get

5. slang : to make pregnant

no girls get married around here till they're knocked up — Ernest Hemingway

6. : to make uneasy : disturb , bother

felt rather knocked up by the news

7.

a. Britain : to knock down (sense 5)

b. : jog 4

intransitive verb

1. : to become totally exhausted or otherwise unfit : break down

a few of the beasts had knocked up and had to be abandoned — I.L.Idriess

2. : to chance upon or meet up with something indicated — used with against

knocked up against formidable difficulties

happened to knock up against an old friend

3. : to practice informally (as by volleying) in warming up before a match (as in tennis, badminton, squash)

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