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  • verb To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
  • verb informal To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
  • verb colloquial To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
  • verb 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
  • verb New Zealand To organise something.

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  • verb lift with a special device

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