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Jacked up
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- 1 Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
"Do you want to rotate the tires while we have the car jacked up?"
- 2 Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock. slang
"He took us for a ride in his awesome new jacked up truck."
- 3 Significantly increased or expanded. informal
"It's hard to make ends meet with the jacked up price of gas."
- 4 Under the influence of stimulants; high. slang
"They were all jacked up on coke."
- 5 Stimulated, excited. slang
"2002 July 15, Kevin Boyce, Loud Rock, CMJ New Music Report, page 13, Late summer is going to be a fantastic time to be a metal fan and we′re more jacked-up about it than a truckload of nymphomaniacs let loose in a dildo factory."
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- 6 Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured. slang
"That jacked up refrigerator hasn't moved from that curb in months."
- 7 Reprehensible; objectionable. slang
"Dude, your girlfriend left you for your brother? That's jacked up."
- 8 Bankrupt; insolvent; ruined; done for. Australia, West-Country, dialectal, obsolete
- 9 Absent, having quit, given up, or having abandoned one's post. Australia, West-Country, dialectal, obsolete
- 1 simple past and past participle of jack up form-of, participle, past
Etymology
From jack (“raise with a jack”). * “Wrecked, messed up” sense possibly an extension of the “under the influence of stimulants” sense
From jack (“raise with a jack”). * “Wrecked, messed up” sense possibly an extension of the “under the influence of stimulants” sense
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