jacked up
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verb
- To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.βHe jacked the car up to change the tire.β
- To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.βI can't believe they're going to jack up the price of gasoline again β and after they already raised it twenty cents a gallon!β
- To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.βI'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.β
- To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
adjective
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.βDo you want to rotate the tires while we have the car jacked up?β
- Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.βHe took us for a ride in his awesome new jacked up truck.β
- Significantly increased or expanded.βIt's hard to make ends meet with the jacked up price of gas.β
- Under the influence of stimulants; high.βThey were all jacked up on coke.β