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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.
Principal Translations. Inglés. Español. knocked up, knocked-up adj. vulgar, slang (woman: pregnant) embarazada adj. It seemed like everyone I knew was pregnant that summer; there were knocked-up women everywhere! Parece que todos se habían embarazado ese verano, ¡había mujeres embarazadas por todos lados!
Principal Translations. Inglés. Español. knock [sb] up vtr phrasal sep. often passive, slang (make pregnant) (ofensivo) preñar a vtr + prep. (coloquial, ofensivo) hacerle el bombo loc verb.
Hace 4 días · 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.
12 de abr. de 2014 · 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?
Hace 6 días · knocked up (not comparable) (slang, principally American, sometimes offensive) Pregnant, typically outside of marriage. Synonyms: see Thesaurus: pregnant
knock something up. to prepare or make something quickly and without much effort. She knocked up a meal in ten minutes. See knock up in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Definition of knock up phrasal verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
