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1. (slang, principally American, sometimesoffensive)Pregnant, typicallyoutside ofmarriage.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus: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 gotknocked 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, page179:

     I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she'sknocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She gotknocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking.

2. (slang,archaic)Exhausted;worn out orused up.
   • 1849 May –1850 November,Charles Dickens,The Personal History of David Copperfield, London:Bradbury & Evans, […], published1850,→OCLC:

     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 quiteknocked up.

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

knockedup

1. simplepast andpastparticiple ofknock up