| 词组 | knock up |
| 释义 | knock up 1. knock up sth • knock sth up • knock sb up sth informal to make something, quickly and without much effort, especially using things that you have or find by chance: ▪ She was the sort of girl who could knock up wonderful dinners in fifteen minutes. ▪ Why don't you ask Ian - he could easily knock some shelves up for you. ▪ Could you knock us up some cold ham and salad for lunch? 2. knock sb up old-fashioned informal if a man knocks a woman up, he makes her pregnant (=a baby starts to grow inside her body), especially when they are not married get (sb) knocked up ▪ Don't tell anyone, but Bobby's been in a lot of trouble - he got a young girl knocked up over a year ago. ■ SIMILAR TO: make sb pregnant 3. knock sb up • knock up sb BrE to wake someone, usually during the night, by knocking on the door of their room or house: ▪ It was a great holiday, but we had to be knocked up at three in the morning to catch the plane home. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑wake up, rouse formal 4. knock up sth • knock sth up BrE if you knock up a particular number of points when you are playing a sport or a game, you succeed in winning them: ▪ Cockbain played well for his side, knocking up 59 out of 150. ▪ Gloucester knocked up a new record at the weekend - they beat Bridgend by forty-two points to fifteen. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑clock up, ↑notch up especially BrE 5. knock up BrE if you knock up when you play a sport like tennis, you practise hitting the ball to another player, before you start to play a match: ▪ Shall we knock up for a few minutes first? ▪ Come and join us - we're only knocking up. knock-up n C BrE when players of a sport like tennis practise for a short time before they start to play a match: ▪ The crowd stood up and applauded Becker when his record was read out during the knock-up. |
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