jack up
To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar meansTo raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
» You'll have to jack up the car.
Вам придётся поднять машину домкратом.
Meaning
10 sensesTo 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.
(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!
(colloquial)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.
(New Zealand)To organise something.
(colloquial)To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
(slang, transitive)To improve or embellish on (something).
I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.
(informal)To refuse to follow an order.
(informal)To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
(ambitransitive, slang)To inject a drug into (oneself) intravenously.
(Australia, West Country, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, transitive)To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
1888, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, chapter 19, Google Books Not but what I'd had a lot to bear, and took a deal of punishment before he jacked up.
- lift with a special device
Examples
16 sentencesYou'll have to jack up the car.
ruВам придётся поднять машину домкратом.
They recently jacked the prices up.
Tom jacked the car up.
Tom jacked up the car, so he could take off the flat tire and put on the spare.
Tom jacked up the car.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
* Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American* 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”)
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Forms
jacks up, jacking up, jacked up, jacked up| Base form | jack up · to jack up |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | jacks up |
| Present participle | jacking up |
| Past simple | jacked up |
| Past participle | jacked up |
irregular
Phrasal verbs
5 phrasal verbsSynonyms
6 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb