ALL meanings of jack-up
jack-up
J j - noun jack-up any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods. 1
- noun jack-up Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant. 1
- noun jack-up Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug. 1
- noun jack-up (initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey? 1
- noun jack-up Also called jackstone. Games. one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks. one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks. jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball. 1
- noun jack-up any of several carangid fishes, especially of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle) of the western Atlantic Ocean. 1
- noun jack-up Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races. 1
- noun jack-up Slang: Vulgar. jack shit. 1
- noun jack-up Nautical. a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel. Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast. 1
- noun jack-up (initial capital letter) a sailor. 1
- noun jack-up a lumberjack. 1
- noun jack-up applejack. 1
- noun jack-up jack rabbit. 1
- noun jack-up a jackass. 1
- abbreviation JACK-UP jacklight. 1
- noun jack-up a device for turning a spit. 1
- noun jack-up a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string. 1
- noun jack-up Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at. 1
- noun jack-up Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell. 1
- noun jack-up a premigratory young male salmon. 1
- noun jack-up Theater. brace jack. 1
- noun jack-up Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or especially of a merlin. 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
- noun jack-up An increase or rise; usually said of prices, fees, or rates. 0
- adjective jack-up (also jackup) Characterized by, or utilizing jacks or hydraulic lifts in the design (of a machine). 0