knocked up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.24 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of knock up
Example Sentences
- "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 got knocked 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."
- "I ask him why she doesn't get on methadone while she's knocked up. He says because she not only uses heroin but she's a crystal meth head and a crack head to boot. She got knocked up by a John she picked up one night hooking."
- "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 quite knocked up."