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knock up
verb- to impregnate US, 1813
- Taking a quick trip to the grave because she got messed up with a rat who knocked her up, played with her awhile, then took off. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 69, 1947
- Yeah, well, she got knocked up. At a grind session. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 158, 1954
- "It wasn’t too ethereal to keep her from geting knocked up," observed Polly. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 256, 1964
- I probably knocked up your daughter is all. I wanted you to know. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 226, 1966
- He was always laying bets about when she’d get knocked up. — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 52, 1972
- Pauline, this girl, I think maybe I knocked her up. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- Now I want you to level with me: did you knock this skirt up? — Something About Mary, 1998
- She said it was a serviceman from Fort Bliss knocked her up. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 221, 1999
- to hammer on the door of a cell to attract the attention of a warder AUSTRALIA, 1944
- In this jail you’ve got to knock up for about an hour before a screw comes to your cell. — Ray Denning, Prison Diaries, p. 63, 1978
- Regrettably it had no toilet. If my bowel or bladder cried out for attention I had to “knock up”. — Murray Farquhar, Nine Words from the Grave, p. 162, 1986
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