jack up
Verb
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Verb
jack up
- 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.
- 1907, United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports, Volume 82, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=WnNNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22jacks+up%22|%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22jacks+up%22|%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6jeMT6zXEoyOmQXv8tnoCQ&redir_esc=y page 433],
- Nor was there any proof that they had been improperly used in jacking up the end of the car.
- 1916, Engineering and Contracting, Volume 45, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7V8xAQAAMAAJ&q=%22jacks+up%22|%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22jacks+up%22|%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tzmMT_iMIqv3mAXU75HPCQ&redir_esc=y page 113],
- From this time forward the overhang to the east of the center row was carried entirely on the clay, the shoring screws from the G and H piers having been removed to assist in jacking up at the west side.
- 1987 August, A. K. Hamlin, letter to Homeowners′ Clinic, Popular Mechanics, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AuQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA109&dq=%22jacks+up%22|%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vDuMT5_dMOTCmQWo-NDACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22jacks%20up%22|%22jacking%20up%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 109],
- How can I secure them without jacking up the whole house to get the bolts in?
- (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.
- (obsolete, transitive and intransitive, dialect, West England and Australia) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
- Synonyms: jig up, throw up, chuck up, discontinue, jack in
- 1881?, Garnet Walch, A Little Tin Plate, Google Books ↗
- 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.”
- 1888, Thomas Alexander Browne, 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.
- 1900, John Strange Winter, A Self-Made Countess: The Justification of a Husband, page 201 ↗ alternate source ↗
- “I don't think I shall enter for the Point to Point this year, because we're going to jack up.”
- “Going to jack up what?” asked one, while the others looked up enquiringly.
- “We're going to jack up the Service. […]”
- (NZ) To organise something.
- (basketball, colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
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