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Definition of Jack up
1. Verb. Lift with a special device. "Jack up the car so you can change the tire"
Definition of Jack up
1. Verb. To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means. ¹
2. Verb. (informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. ¹
3. Verb. (colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for (term fuck up). ¹
4. Verb. (obsolete transitive and intransitive dialect West England and Australia) 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 ¹
5. Verb. (NZ) To organise something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jack Up
Literary usage of Jack up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oliver Optic's Magazine by Oliver Optic (1875)
"As you play, try to have the bags fall two and two. 2. Throw the jack up ...
Throw the jack up, pick up three, and catch the jack ; toss all up, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"jack up, to (Australian), to throw up, to abandon; very probably a corruption of
... Says I, " Let's jack up, man alive, an' try further down on the Creek. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"jack up, v. to give up ; but it rather conveys the idea of giving up after
continuous effort, or when there is no chance of success. ..."
4. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1896)
"Ship the ratchet-wrench and jack up with it until the rollers can be removed.
... jack up the carriage again with the ratchet-wrench until the weight of the ..."
5. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1919)
"jack up a-xle, unscrew cap screw (A), remove hub cap (B), remove drive shaft ...
Procedure: jack up wheels and remove; take off wheel bearing retainers by ..."
6. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"jack up [jaak aup],phr. To break a contract; to discontinue; to throw up. ...
(sum on account), and then jack up —ie leave the job. ..."
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