knocked up
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knocked up
adjective
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Pregnant, typically outside of marriage.
My name is Wendy and I first moved to New York when I was 21 to be a dancer, but I broke my big toe and then I got knocked up by this actor who dumped me to join the Peace Corps, so for the last 16 years I been raising my daughter all by myself and then two weeks ago, she tells me that she is a bise
Similar: big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting, fertilized, full, gestating, gravid
- Exhausted; worn out or used up. I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.
verb
- simple past and past participle of knock up
Translations
Talk about this word "knocked up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/knocked%20up. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. knocked up. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/knocked%20up "knocked up." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/knocked%20up.Cite this
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title = {knocked up},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/knocked%20up},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
