knocked up
Made a baby
Knocked up is informal for pregnant, implying the pregnancy was unplanned or inconvenient: She got knocked up at seventeen.
The phrase often carries a crude or dismissive tone.
In British English, knocked up can also mean exhausted or, archaically, roused from sleep by knocking.
To knock someone up is to make them pregnant: He knocked her up and disappeared.
Awaiting a predicted outcome
- with childPregnant, old-fashioned term
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
- trimesterThirteen-week span
maternity · prenatal · antenatal · ultrasound · due date · morning sickness · cravings · bump
Not anticipated beforehand
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- taken abackShocked into momentary confusion
- stunnedShocked into speechlessness
gobsmacked · speechless · bombshell · whoops · accident · slip-up · life-changing · unprepared
expecting
Awaiting a predicted outcome
- with childPregnant, old-fashioned term
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- gestationCarrying offspring in womb
trimester · maternity · prenatal · antenatal · ultrasound · due date · morning sickness · cravings · bump · midwife
unexpected
Not anticipated beforehand
- unplannedNot arranged beforehand
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- taken abackShocked into momentary confusion
stunned · gobsmacked · speechless · bombshell · whoops · accident · slip-up · life-changing · unprepared · caught off guard
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
knocked upbarren
Unable to produce
childless · infertile · sterile · unpregnant · empty
knocked upexpecting
Awaiting a predicted outcome
with child · pregnant · enceinte · gravid
knock, knockout, knocking, knocked, knocker, knocks, knockdown, knockabout, knockoffs