jack up
Dictionary
verb
- To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
"He jacked the car up to change the tire."
- 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!"
- 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."
- To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
- To organise something.
- To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
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