knocks up

present tense third-person singular of knock up, British
as in wakes
to cause to stop sleeping I asked the clerk at the hotel to knock me up at 7:00 a.m.

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“Knocks up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knocks%20up. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.

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