Usually means: Awaken or summon by knocking.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word knock up:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knock-up, knock up: Merriam-Webster
  3. knock-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knock-up, knock-up, knock up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knock up: Vocabulary.com
  6. knock-up: Wordnik
  7. knock-up, knock up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knock-up, knock up: Wiktionary
  9. knock up: Dictionary.com
  10. knock up: Rhymezone
  11. 'Knock-Up: American-Britih Dictionary
  12. knock up: FreeDictionary.org
  13. knock up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. knock-up, knock up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. knock up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Knock-up: Sports Definitions

(Note: See knock_ups as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (knock up)

verb:  (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
verb:  (British) 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.
verb:  (dated) To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more.
verb:  (dated, intransitive) To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out.
verb:  (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
verb:  (obsolete, printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.

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