English Dictionary

knock up

IPA（発音記号）

/nɒk ʌp/

動詞

口語 イギリス英語 古風 自動詞 俗語

(colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. See also knock together.

日本語の意味

急ごしらえで作る、組み立てる、組み上げる / 手早く造り上げる、即席で組み立てる

We had to knock up a makeshift shelter out of tarps when the storm came on unexpectedly.

嵐が突然来たので、ブルーシートで間に合わせの簡易避難所を慌てて組み立てなければならなかった。

意味（1）

(colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. See also knock together.

I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.

意味（2）

(Britain) 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 knocker up.

However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.

意味（3）

(dated) To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more.

‘Now, mamma,’ he said, when he went out, ‘take notice, you are not to knock up your god-daughter with gossip,’ …

意味（4）

(dated, intransitive) To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out.

[…] the horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service […]

意味（5）

(slang) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.

I guess his summer plans are shot now that he knocked his girlfriend up.

意味（6）

(racket sports, intransitive) 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.

Official Knock up: if the players knock up together a maximum of five minutes shall be permitted; if they knock up separately each player shall be permitted to knock up for a maximum of five minutes.

意味（7）

(bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.

to knock up printed sheets

knocks up （ present singular third-person ）

knocking up （ participle present ）

knocked up （ participle past ）

knocked up （ past ）