jack up🔊

To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.

(informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.

(colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for (fuck up).

(Australia) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract) +

(NZ) To organise something.

(colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.

To improve or embellish on (something).

(informal) To refuse to follow an order.

(informal) To criticize, discipline or reprimand.