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ALL meanings of jack up

jack up
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  • transitivephrasal verb jack up raise 1
  • transitivephrasal verb jack up price: increase 1
  • noun jack up an increase or rise: a recent jack-up in prices. 1
  • verb with object jack up to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually followed by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire. 1
  • verb with object jack up Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually followed by up). 1
  • verb with object jack up Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually followed by up). 1
  • verb with object jack up Slang. to mess up, ruin, or injure (usually followed by up): The paint job was all jacked up. I jacked my shoulder when I fell. 1
  • verb with object jack up to jacklight. 1
  • verb without object jack up to jacklight. 1
  • adjective jack up Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack rafter; jack truss. 1
  • idioms jack up every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them. 1
  • phrasal verb jack up If you jack up a heavy object such as a car, you raise it off the ground using a jack. 0
  • phrasal verb jack up To jack up the price or amount of something means to increase it to an unreasonable or unacceptable level. 0
  • verb jack up to increase (prices, salaries, etc) 0
  • verb jack up to raise (an object, such as a car,) with or as with a jack 0
  • verb jack up to inject oneself with a drug, usually heroin 0
  • verb jack up to refuse to comply; rebel, esp collectively 0
  • verb jack up to initiate, organize, or procure 0
  • noun jack up something that has been contrived or achieved by dishonest means 0
  • noun jack up to raise by means of a jack 0
  • noun jack up to raise (prices, salaries, etc.) 0
  • noun jack up to reproach for misbehavior or neglect 0
  • noun jack up to encourage to perform one's duty 0
  • verb jack up To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means. 0
  • verb jack up (Informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. 0
  • verb jack up (Colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up. 0
  • verb jack up (Obsolete (No longer in use)) (transitive and intransitive, dialect, West Country and Australia) To give up; to abandon (something); to jig up, throw up, chuck up (give up, concede); to discontinue; to leave a job, break a contract; to jack in. 0
  • verb jack up (New Zealand) To organise something. 0
  • verb jack up (Colloquial) (basketball) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity. 0
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