Sekirov Dictionary

jack up

verb 10
jack-up noun 2
forms 4

verb10

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To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
- He jacked the car up to change the tire
- The oil rig can be jacked up higher when the hydraulic legs touch the sea floor.
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(informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
- 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!
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(informal) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
- I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
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(slang) To inject a drug into (oneself) intravenously.
- And I've had scag, I've had speed / I've jacked up until I bleed / So what, so what? — 1981
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(slang) To improve or embellish on (something).
- I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.
(informal) To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
(informal) To refuse to follow an order.
(informal) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
(New-Zealand) To organise something.
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(dialect, no longer used) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
- 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.” — 1881

jack-up noun2

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An increase or rise; usually said of prices, fees, or rates.
- It’s hard to stay in business with the recent jack-up in fuel costs.
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[before a noun] A machine that uses jacks or hydraulic lifts.
- The second phase of resilience work at Dawlish station began on November 5, with the arrival off the coast of an eight-legged walking jack-up barge known as a Wavewalker. — 2020

forms

jacked up · jacking up · jacks up · jack-ups

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