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   Knock up

   • ▪ make something in a hurry
   • ▪ make a woman pregnant
   • ▪ wake or attract the attention of someone by knocking at their door
   • ▪ (in tennis or a similar game) practise before formal play begins

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   Learn the meaning and origin of the phrase 'knocked up', which is a euphemism for pregnant in American English. Find out the other meanings and examples of 'knock up' and related phrases.

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   Jan 24, 2024 · Knocked up is a colloquial expression that means pregnant, usually unexpectedly or out of wedlock. Learn the history and usage of this phrase, as well as its pros and cons, and alternative terms to describe pregnancy.

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   3 days ago · Knock up can mean to make or build something quickly, to wake someone up, to make someone pregnant, or to exhaust oneself. Learn the different meanings, synonyms, and usage examples of this phrasal verb in British and American English.

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   What does 'knock up' mean?

   • 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”.

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   When did the word 'Knocked Up' come out?

   • A: According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the phrase “knocked up,” meaning pregnant, first appeared in print in 1830! An 1860 slang dictionary defined the term this way: “Knocked up. … In the United States, amongst females, the phrase is equivalent to being enceinte .”

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   What is a 'knocker's up'?

   • I can recall that, in my youth in the Black Country district of the English West Midlands, ‘knocker’s up’ were men who, early in the morning, went round to the houses of factory workers and knocked on their bedroom windows to make sure they got up and got ready for work.

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   What does Knocked Up mean in a citation?

   • An OED citation from 1836 refers to slave women who are “knocked down by the auctioneer, and knocked up by the purchaser.” grammarphobia Knocked up in BE is just from knocking on the door or window. In the industrial revolution when factories, and so fixed working hours, became common - but before alarm clocks.

   etymology - Knocked up, two very different meanings. But why and how

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   Apr 12, 2014 · This due to the job of knocker-uppers being the tapping or knocking on windows to awaken people in the days before alarm clocks. 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?

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   Learn the meanings and usage of the phrasal verb knock up in British and American English. Find out how to say knock up in tennis, wake somebody up, or make something quickly.

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   1 day ago · Knocked up is a slang term for pregnant, often used in American English. It can also mean exhausted or worn out, and is the past tense of knock up.

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   Learn the meanings and uses of the phrasal verb knock up and the noun knock-up in English. Find out how to say them in different languages and contexts.