| 单词 | knock up |
| 释义 | knock up1. phrasal verb If you knock something up, you make it or build it very quickly, using whatever materials are available. [informal] Could you possibly knock me up some scrambled eggs? [V n P n (not pron)] Any water-skiing enthusiast can knock up a pair of skis in a few hours. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] [Also VERB noun PARTICLE]2. phrasal verb If you knock someone up, you knock on the door of their bedroom or of their house in the night or in the morning in order to wake them up. [British, informal] He went to knock Rob up at 4.30am. [VERB noun PARTICLE] [Also VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] 3. phrasal verb [usually passive] If a woman is knocked up by a man, she is made pregnant by him. [mainly US, informal, rude] When I got knocked up, the whole town knew it. [get V-ed P] More Synonyms of knock up See full dictionary entry for knockknock up in British Englishverb (adverb, mainly tr) 1. Also: knock together informal to assemble quickly; improvise to knock up a set of shelves 2. British informal to waken; rouse to knock someone up early 3. slang to make pregnant 4. British informal to exhaust the heavy work knocked him up 5. cricket to score (runs) 6. (intransitive) tennis, squash, badminton to practise or hit the ball about informally, esp before a match noun knock-up 7. a practice session at tennis, squash, or a similar game knock-up in British English (ˈnɒkˌʌp) noun a practice session at tennis, squash, or a similar game played with racquets and a ball A light drizzle during the knock-up forced a 50-minute postponement. Let's have a knock-up before we start. knock up in American English1. British, Informal a. to tire out; exhaust b. to wake (someone), as by knocking at the door 2. US, Slang to make pregnant Examples of 'knock up' in a sentence |
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