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knocks up
verb
Third person singular of knock up
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Barney goes back to his Lothario ways, knocks up a girl, and only really finds peace once he meets his newborn daughter (something Robin could never give him).
Foster slips out of his sett, takes off the mask the Guardian has lent him for the photoshoot, lights his tiny Hexamine cooker and knocks up a few barbecued worms, which he serves with nettles and garlic.
He looked the part of a fifth-year senior captain as he engaged the officials, raised his arms to incite the crowd and delivered fist knocks up and down the sideline to his teammates.
On the radio, you can occasionally hear the evidence of this in the variations in the volume of his voice as he knocks up against his microphone, and then jerks away, though when a caller is making a long, complicated claim, he sits still, with his lips pursed, like a woman checking her lipstick in the mirror.
Unless David Archuleta knocks up Miley Cyrus in the next two months he's the new American Idol.
Loews Hotels: At 16 locations coast to coast, this sale knocks up to 40% off rates at these luxurious properties and is throwing in free Wi-Fi during the stay.
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Or knocked up.
Take "Knocked Up".
And Knocked Up?
He's knocking up now.
Knocked Up isn't misogynist.
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