Meaning of knive up | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“The gentleman with a concave front and a large watch chain inquired of the kittinish^([sic]) old lady at the pie counter at the railroad station, “what kind of pie do you serve here?” “All four kinds,” she replied with smiling disdain. “What are they?” “Open faced, cross bar, knived up and the kind mother used to make.””

“One task force knived up the northwest side of the Iron Triangle, broke through Red defenses, and destroyed several enemy tanks.”

“And it was still snowing, but here and there jonquils knived up.”

“Rodriguez’s sister gets raped and knived up the way we had cut up the other gang. She was stabbed all over the head and chest.”

“I came down from London six years ago. That was an idea knived up with a friend of mine and his missus and my girlfriend at the time. It was like — we didn’t even know anything about the place — just a load of houses. We were living in a one bedroom thing in London — stick your feet out of bed and you’re in the oven!”

“Men could be blown apart or knived up to the last minute in a war or die of tropical diseases far from medical help.”

“Seed splitter, I knived up through blackness to empty the day from my head – see how it scatters, a million zygote angels seeding the furrows to become these cabbages, lace-bonnet babies with skull-breaking brains, their urchin-orificed heads of flame burn like swamp gas.”

“Cardinals QB Kurt Warner knived up the Ravens’ defense, never a good sign seeing how Baltimore relies almost solely on defense and special teams to win games.”

“[…] I can remember The Screamers in unison running over the old station bridge chanting ‘The Boys are back in Town’ en route to the Offy but then The Heavy Squad weighed in knived-up even that Postman who collected Elvis records & had every one of his 45’s but 2 copies one in a sealed plastic cover & one to play & he was grimacing & waving a hammer the night The Screamers fucked off & folk sang ‘50p for anyone who misses them’”

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