Meanings
- USnot comparableoffensiveslangsometimesPregnant, typically outside of marriage.
I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she's knocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She got knocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking.
2011, Anna Young, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 1791 more example
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 bisexual and that she hates me more than any person on this planet.
2000, Gina Wendkos, Coyote Ugly (motion picture), spoken by Wendy (Ellen Cleghorne)Synonyms: big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting
- archaicnot comparableslangExhausted; 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.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of knock up
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePregnant, typically outside of marriage.
Translations
French en cloque
- en cloquepregnant
Polish z brzuchem
- z brzuchempregnant
Portuguese prenha
- prenhapregnant
Swedish på smällen
- på smällenpregnant
Cite this entry
knocked up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knocked%20up
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