knocked up en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(US, not-comparable, offensive, slang, sometimes) 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 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):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 179:
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(archaic, not-comparable, slang) 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.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
Synonyms
big · expecting · child-great · enceinte · pregs · up the duff · fertilized · up the kyte · preggo · heavy · pupped · in a family way · carrying · expectant · have a bun in the oven · quick · eating for two · up the stump · preg · with child · knocked up · preggers · great · full · up the stick · gravid · preggie · up the spout · in the club · delicate · gestating · pregnant · in the pudding club · hormonal
Translations (4)
pl z brzuchem (pregnant) · sv på smällen (pregnant) · pt prenha (pregnant) · fr en cloque (pregnant)