knock sb up
— phrasal verb with knock uk/nɒk/us/nɑːk/verb
(WAKE UP)
UK informal to wake someone up by knocking on the door of their house or bedroom:
I'm sorry to have to knock you up in the middle of the night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: not sleeping & not unconscious
- awoke
- be in the land of the living idiom
- come round
- conscious
- consciousness
- keep sb up
- knock
- land
- morning person
- not sleep a wink idiom
- rise and shine! idiom
- rouse
- sit up
- stay
- stir
- toss
- wait up
- wake (sb) up
- waking
- woken
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(MAKE PREGNANT)
slang to make a woman pregnant:
You don't want to get knocked up by some guy you hardly know.