jack up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.

   “He jacked the car up to change the tire”

2. fiil 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. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)

   “1881?, Garnet Walch, A Little Tin Plate, Google Books Says I, “Let's jack up, man alive, / An' try further down on the Creek!” / “All right!” says my mate, “but we'll drive / Right an' left to the end of this week.””

5. fiil To organise something.
6. fiil To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
7. fiil To improve or embellish on (something).

   “I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.”

8. fiil To refuse to follow an order.
9. fiil To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
10. fiil To inject a drug into (oneself) intravenously.

    “And I've had scag, I've had speed / I've jacked up until I bleed / So what, so what?”