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Jack up
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- 1 To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
"He jacked the car up to change the tire"
- 2 lift with a special device wordnet
- 3 To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. informal
"I can't believe they're going to jack up the price of gasoline again — and after they already raised it twenty cents a gallon!"
- 4 To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up. colloquial
"I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up."
- 5 To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract) Australia, West-Country, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, transitive
"1881?, Garnet Walch, A Little Tin Plate, Google Books Says I, “Let's jack up, man alive, / An' try further down on the Creek!” / “All right!” says my mate, “but we'll drive / Right an' left to the end of this week.”"
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- 6 To organise something. New-Zealand
- 7 To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity. colloquial
- 8 To improve or embellish on (something). slang, transitive
"I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients."
- 9 To refuse to follow an order. informal
- 10 To criticize, discipline or reprimand. informal
Etymology
* Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American English); both ultimately from noun jack (“mechanical device used to raise heavy objects”) * “Screw up, mess up” sense derived from, or influenced by fuck up, as a bowdlerization; also possibly influenced by jacked up (“high, intoxicated”) * First dialectal idiomatic meaning: “abandon, give up” (1873), possibly a corruption of chuck up, as chuck up the sponge (“give up, concede, give token of submission”)
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