knock up
suomi-englanti sanakirjaknock up englannista suomeksi
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Verbi
knock up englanniksi
To together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. See also (m). (defdate)
(ux)
To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also (m). (defdate)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
{{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Adventure of the Speckled Band|section=Adventure of the Speckled Band|page 1
{{quote-book|en|year=1966|author=Ngaio Marsh|title=Death at the Dolphin|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=-eQc8KtccNIC&pg=PA160&dq=knock+up|page=160
To exhaust; out; out; to fatigue until unable to do more. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1835|author=Charlotte Brontë|title=Villette
{{quote-book|en|year=1861|author=John Petherick|title=Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=W7UTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA389&dq=%22knocked+up%22|page=389
To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to out. (defdate)
{{quote-book|en|year=1856|author=Thomas de Quincey|title=Memorials|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=VYtaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=%22knock+up%22|page=81
1907, (w), ''The Longest Journey'', Part I, VII ed., p. 87:
- I met one of your dons at tea, and he said that your degree was not in the least a proof of your abilities: he said that you knocked up and got flurried in examinations.
To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See up. (defdate)
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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. (defdate)
- (quote)
To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.