jack up

Etymology

 * Sense of “hoist with a jack” is from 1885; then, “increase prices, etc.” (1904, American English); both ultimately from noun
 * “Screw up, mess up” sense derived from, or influenced by, as a bowdlerization; also possibly influenced by
 * First dialectal idiomatic meaning: “abandon, give up” (1873), possibly a corruption of, as chuck up the sponge (“give up, concede, give token of submission”)

Verb

 * 1) To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
 * 2) * 1987 August, A. K. Hamlin, letter to Homeowners′ Clinic, Popular Mechanics, |%22jacking+up%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vDuMT5_dMOTCmQWo-NDACQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22jacks%20up%22|%22jacking%20up%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 109,
 * How can I secure them without jacking up the whole house to get the bolts in?
 * 1)  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!
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
 * 2) * 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.”
 * 1) * 1888,, , chapter 19, Google Books
 * Not but what I'd had a lot to bear, and took a deal of punishment before he jacked up.
 * 1) * 1900,, A Self-Made Countess: The Justification of a Husband, page 201 alternate source
 * “I don't think I shall enter for the Point to Point this year, because we're going to jack up.”
 * “Going to jack up what?” asked one, while the others looked up enquiringly.
 * “We're going to jack up the Service. […]”
 * 1)  To organise something.
 * 2)  To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
 * 3)  To improve or embellish on (something).
 * I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.
 * 1)  To refuse to follow an order.
 * 2)  To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
 * “We're going to jack up the Service. […]”
 * 1)  To organise something.
 * 2)  To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
 * 3)  To improve or embellish on (something).
 * I jacked up the recipes with some fresh ingredients.
 * 1)  To refuse to follow an order.
 * 2)  To criticize, discipline or reprimand.

Usage notes

 * Usually, the object may appear before or after the particle (jack up the car or jack the car up)
 * If the object is a pronoun, then it must come before the particle (jack it up, not jack up it)

Translations

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