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💥 To damage badly 🤰 To make pregnant
to bang up

to bang up

9.9
Make someone pregnant, usually by accident
  • phrasal verb
  • /bæŋ ʌp/
  • Offensive
translation icon : dejar preñada
  • Wow, did he really bang up her?

Examples

  • She found out she was banged up after a few weeks of feeling unwell.

  • You really don't want to bang up someone unless you're ready for the consequences.

  • Rumor has it he banged up his girlfriend last summer.

  • Don't bang up your girlfriend!

  • They found out that they had accidentally bang up during their last vacation.

  • She was surprised to learn that she had bang up unexpectedly.

  • After a night of celebration, they realized they had bang up without planning.

Synonyms

to knock up
vsto bang up
  • NSFW
35 9.9

To make a woman pregnant

usually causes pregnancy unintentionally or unexpectedly
to impregnate
vsto bang up
32 7.2

To make a woman, female animal, or an egg start to grow a baby

is narrower, referring mainly to an unintentional human pregnancy

Surface Forms

bang up infinitive
banged up past
banged up past participle
banging up present participle
bangs up third person singular

Morphology

bang + up

The meaning 'to damage' is partly derivable from 'bang' (to strike) together with the particle 'up', which commonly marks intensive or resultative action in phrasal verbs; a learner who knows these uses can infer that repeatedly or forcefully banging something will harm it. However, the exact sense 'damage/destroy' relies on knowing the particle function in phrasal verbs rather than a straightforward compositional reading, so it is not fully transparent.

Etymology

Bang up is slang from the blunt verb bang, meaning to have sex, with up added to show the result; imagine sex that leads to a baby. So it means 'to make someone pregnant'.