jack up (English, verb)
expansion: jack up (third-person singular simple present jacks up, present participle jacking up, simple past and past participle jacked up)
Senses:
glosses: To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
glosses: To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
tags: informal
glosses: To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
tags: colloquial
glosses: To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
tags: Australia
West-Country
dialectal
intransitive
obsolete
transitive
glosses: To organise something.
tags: New-Zealand
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
tags: colloquial
glosses: To improve or embellish on (something).
tags: slang
transitive
glosses: To refuse to follow an order.
tags: informal
glosses: To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
tags: informal
Forms:
form: jacks up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jacking up
tags: participle
present
form: jacked up
tags: participle
past
form: jacked up
tags: past