JACKUP
jack up
Verb
- 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.
- 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 .
- ''I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
- 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
- To organise something.
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