JACKUP

jack up

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. 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!
  3. To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for .
    ''I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
  4. 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
  5. To organise something.


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