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Pregnant, usually unplanned, Irish slang, as in "knocked up"

From the great Irish film, THE SNAPPER: "She's gone and got herself up the pole"

phr. 1 (late 19C+) insane. 2 1920s +) pregnant (cf. UP THE SPOUT).

- Is she up the pole ? - Better ask Seymour that. (James Joyce:Ulysses,PICADOR,1998, p.23)

To get a gun.

G, stop cappin before I up a pole on ya goofy ass.

To pull out the blicky/gun(to arm yourself with your firearm)

Imma be getting head and still ‘up the pole’.

To pull a gun on someone

Adan was talkin smack I upped the pole on em

To pull out, or raise ones firearms. As either a threat or with the intent to kill.

if they aint got that money, we up them poles

a complete waste of time and effort that backfires anyway. like spitting into the wind, but worse. see also piss up a rope

If you've been nominated for the same award 4 times and never won, to nominate yourself _again_ is like pissing up a pole.