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knocked up (not comparable)

  1. (slang, principally American, sometimes offensive) Pregnant, typically outside of marriage.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pregnant
    • 2000, Gina Wendkos, Coyote Ugly (motion picture), spoken by Wendy (Ellen Cleghorne):
      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.
    • 2011, Anna Young, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 179:
      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.
  2. (slang, archaic) Exhausted; worn out or used up.

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  • (exhausted): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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knocked up

  1. simple past and past participle of knock up