Knock up

//nɒk ʌp// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. colloquial

    "I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation."

  2. 2
    make pregnant wordnet
  3. 3
    To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up. British

    "However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking."

  4. 4
    To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more. dated

    "‘Now, mamma,’ he said, when he went out, ‘take notice, you are not to knock up your god-daughter with gossip,’ [...]"

  5. 5
    To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out. dated, intransitive

    "[…] the horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service […]"

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  1. 6
    To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up. US, slang

    "I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up."

  2. 7
    To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up. intransitive

    "The Tennis & Rackets Association - Tournament Rules Official Knock up: if the players knock up together a maximum of five minutes shall be permitted; if they knock up separately each player shall be permitted to knock up for a maximum of five minutes."

  3. 8
    To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.

    "to knock up printed sheets"

  4. 9
    To straighten up a stack of paper.

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