Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
- v. informal To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
- v. colloquial To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
- v. obsolete, transitive and intransitive, dialect 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
- v. New Zealand To organise something.
WordNet 3.0
- v. lift with a special device
Examples
“Whitey said that being rejected didn’t bother him so much as the fact that he felt he was used by Bonilla’s agent, Dennis Gilbert, to jack up the price for Bonilla.”
“They then had to jack up the house four inches at a time, straighten it up and ease it back on to supporting chocks.”
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