knock up
/nɒk ʌp/ verboEn español: hacer un bombo
- To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. · I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.
- To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more.
- To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out.
- To impregnate, especially out of wedlock or accidentally. See knocked up. · I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.
- To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form. · to knock up printed sheets
- To straighten up a stack of paper.
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