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knockup

knockup is the alternative form of knock-up.

Meaning of knock-up

Noun

knock-up (plural knock-ups)

  1. A short practice session before a tennis match.
    • In the way of friendly knockups I played at times with both the Renshaws and Lawford, but at that time there is no doubt that they were better than I was.1932, American Lawn Tennis, volume 26, page 72
  2. Something constructed shoddily or hastily.
    • One of those unadorned late-fifties hillside knockups posing as intentionally contemporary but really the product of a tight construction budget.2000, Jonathan Kellerman, Monster, page 47
  3. (slang) A pregnancy.
    • When will we wake up? I see young girls pregnant and young boys adding up their “knock-ups” like a scorecard at a mob gambling venue.2016, Veronica Valles, Back To The Center, page 54

Forms of knockup

pluralknockups

Origin of knockup

Deverbal from knock up.

Questions about knockup

What is knockup the alternative form of?
Knockup is the alternative form of knock-up.

Words near knockup in the dictionary

  1. knockstone
  2. knockstones
  3. knockt
  4. knockthrough
  5. knockthroughs
  6. knockup
  7. knockups
  8. Knockupworth
  9. Knockwood
  10. knockwurst
  11. knockwursts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knockup (page history and authors); knock-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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