knock up
phrasal verbknock up
- (in tennis, etc.) to practise for a short time before the start of a match
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knock somebody up
- (British English, informal) to wake somebody by knocking on their door
- (informal) to make a woman pregnant
knock something up
- to prepare or make something quickly and without much effort
- She knocked up a meal in ten minutes.