To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
I'll just knock up a quick demo for the sales presentation.
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. .
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.
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,’ [...]
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