jack up
verb
Meaning
- To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
- To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
- To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
- To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
- To organise something.
- To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
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