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Oct 22, 2003 · Knocked Up is a slang term for getting someone pregnant, usually used negatively or as a compliment. See different meanings, usage and examples from Urban Dictionary users.
So, both meanings of ‘knock up’ involve bedrooms, although “I knocked up my Aunt Jenny this morning” would get a titter in the USA but pass unnoticed in the UK. Also, there is a further ‘assemble quickly’ meaning of ‘knock up’, as in “I knocked up a batch of pancakes for lunch”.
Apr 12, 2014 · From "Knocked up" to mean "woken up", it appears that the meanings split somewhere between the 1920s and the 1940s. Does anyone know the history of how the meanings split and exactly why and how it happened?
May 12, 2013 · Knocked up is a slang term for pregnant, often used in a vulgar or humorous context. It can also be the past tense of knock up, which means to impregnate. See more words with the same meaning and related terms.
Knocked up here means ‘subjected to sexual intercourse’ or ‘made pregnant’. Mr Perk seems not to understand knocked down here – in use since the 18th century to mean ‘dispose of (an...
Jan 29, 2020 · Slang: Knocked up (meaning, examples, pronunciation) - YouTube. Learzing. 13.2K subscribers. Subscribed. 16. 955 views 4 years ago. "Knocked up" means "to become pregnant." Example: She got...
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1. Also: knock together informal. to assemble quickly; improvise. to knock up a set of shelves. 2. British informal. to waken; rouse. to knock someone up early. 3. slang. to make pregnant. 4.
