jacking up

Verb

jack up (third-person singular simple present jacks up, present participle jacking up, simple past and past participle jacked up)

1. To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
   • He jacked the car up to change the tire
2. (informal) 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. (colloquial) 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. (Australia, West-Country, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, transitive) 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.”

   Synonyms:

   jig up, throw up, chuck up, discontinue, jack in

5. (New Zealand) To organise something.
6. (colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.

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