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  • verb make pregnant

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  • also v.i. practise before a tennis game

    July 17, 2008

  • also (v.t.) to impregnate (7th definition, = to make pregnant)

    July 17, 2008

  • also (v) to wake someone up (early). See knocker-up

    July 17, 2008

  • in Australian slang, means "to whip up (a dish)"

    July 2, 2009

  • "It was about eleven o'clock at night when they arrived at Senlis, which was the place at which they proposed to lodge, and where they were obliged to knock up the people of the inn, before they could have their supper prepared."

    — Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

    March 9, 2022