How to pronounce “knock up”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. [from 16th c.]
• (British) 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. [from 17th c.]
• (dated) To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more. [from 18th c.]
• (dated, intransitive) To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out. [from 18th c.]
• (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up. [from 19th c.]
• (racket sports, intransitive) 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. [from 19th c.]
• (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
• (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.

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