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Knocked up

adj, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pregnant, typically outside of marriage. not-comparable, offensive, slang, sometimes

    "My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet."

  2. 2
    Exhausted; worn out or used up. archaic, not-comparable, slang

    "I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of knock up form-of, participle, past

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