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单词 jacked-up
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jacked-upadj.

Brit. /dʒaktˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌdʒæktˈəp/ (attributively and in sense 3 also)Brit. /ˈdʒaktʌp/, U.S. /ˈdʒæktˌəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: jack v.2, up adv.1
Etymology: < jacked, past participle of jack v.2 + up adv.1, after to jack up at jack v.2 Phrasal verbs.
In some senses, predicative uses are sometimes difficult to distinguish from the past participle of to jack up at jack v.2 Phrasal verbs.
1. colloquial. Ruined; afflicted; worn out; messed up.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > worn out
perusedc1475
withered1488
laboured1535
outworn1597
worn-out1612
effete1662
frazzled1872
jacked-up1874
crocky1906
bummed1907
rim-racked1916
shot1933
beaten-up1941
beat-up1946
clapped1946
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 201 Jacked-up, ruined, done for.
1887 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1902) III. 340/1 My fowls are so jacked up they will not lay.
1956 ‘T. Betts’ Across Board ix. 122 Capone..got himself jacked up with income-tax trouble.
1978 Internat. Jrnl. Polit. 8 159 They can often use deliberately jacked-up plans to discredit objectionable personnel.
1994 Vibe Nov. 144 Preserving the right to express hardness and strategies for battle is only part of the survival kit for a world as jacked-up as this one.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 June (T Style Mag.) 32/1 I rehabbed my building, and the building across the street was jacked up, so I cleaned it up, because I didn't want to look at it.
2. Levered or raised up, typically with a jack (Jack n.2 11); that is propped on a jack.
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1902 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 27 Apr. 19/2 New Yorkers have not yet accustomed themselves to the upheaval of streets, the jacked-up street car lines, the swinging cranes.
1943 Brit. Med. Jrnl. Sept. 328/2 Drive the centrifuge by pressing the lower rim against the upper outer side of the tyre of a jacked-up rear wheel of a motor-car.
1982 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance (1985) 152 Brian lay in dungarees beneath a jacked-up car, speaking out to her.
1998 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 July 50/1 They went about their tasks—hoisting engines on chain falls, welding new manifolds, scooting under a jacked-up chassis on little dollies.
2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 32/3 He watches him at work under the jacked-up family car.
3. Originally and chiefly U.S. colloquial. Excited, stimulated. Also: intoxicated by, or as if by, a recreational drug, especially to the point of overstimulation, agitation, or hyperactivity. Chiefly with on.
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1902 Oak Park (Illinois) Reporter 10 July We are giving the clerk of the weather ‘pointers’—not to..show such a vindictive spirit just because he was ‘jacked up’ a little bit.
1932 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 15 June (Final ed.) 12/4 If you want her to be a companion, read with her... Keep her jacked up mentally.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks Jacked-up, under the influence of mariahuana [sic].
1968 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Oct. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 132 In any case, I find myself suddenly jacked up—once again—on the possibilities of fiction.
1987 T. Wolfe Bonfire of Vanities ii. 41 Guards..trying to catch some nutball in supergraphic sneakers who, jacked up by fear, does the hundred in 8.4.
2001 K. Walker & M. Schone Son of Grifter xxiv. 239 Those offices full of phone banks where aggressive guys jacked up on coffee or cocaine dial suckers and sell them things that don't exist.
2010 D. Greene Amer. Worker on Film 1 At the time, I was jacked up on punk rock and developed a convoluted ‘anarchist’ political outlook.
4.
a. colloquial. Increased, raised; bolstered; forced or hiked up.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased
grown1340
added?a1425
multiplied1463
increased1552
amplified1573
vantaged1578
augmented1605
swelleda1616
swollena1631
auct1652
improved1661
aggrandized1689
manifolded1767
jacked-up1920
1920 Bull. National Tax Assoc. Nov. 45/1 Circulars were distributed entitled ‘The Crime of the Jacked-up Assessment Roll—Protect your Homes.’
1975 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 27 Jan. 1 Ford's prescribed blend of quickie tax cuts, jacked-up energy costs and ballooning Federal deficits stirred up criticism.
1990 D. Bailey Sunflowers never Sleep iii. 34 Move into one of his run-down rentals. At a jacked-up rent.
2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 41/2 The very first..[report] showed in some states a very jacked-up Republican turnout.
b. colloquial. That has been made more interesting, intense, ostentatious, etc.
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1959 Vogue 1 Oct. 78/3 Why make a sauce that's so jacked up it will blanket out any other taste?
1967 J. G. Davis Hold my Hand I'm Dying xxv. 222 It would be nice for Joseph to come home..and find Samson all smart and the flat all jacked up with those bits and pieces that men never get round to.
1990 G. Plimpton Best of Plimpton ii. vi. 163 He had a jacked-up set of irons.
1991 Film Comment Mar. 28/1 The public has become so accustomed to jacked-up Hollywood fare that even a Bill Murray comedy..won't lure audiences unless it maintains maximum overdrive.
2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 84/2 While the birding is superb, you'll find better guides in the ornithologically similar and more jacked-up Senegambia.
c. Of a vehicle: having raised (rear) suspension.
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1970 Defiance (Ohio) Crescent-News 1 July 26/3 (advt.) 2-door Ford Caliente, jacked up rear wheels, good tires.
1977 Jrnl. Folklore Inst. 14 62 They roar about in ornamental ‘hot rods’..marked by ‘jacked-up’ rear ends, custom paint jobs, powerful rebuilt engines, [etc.].
1996 J. Krakauer Into the Wild 11 My rig is a jacked-up eighty-two Dodge four by four with thirty-eight-inch rubber on it.
2012 Clovis (Curry County) News Jrnl. 15 Dec. 2/1 Woolford's shiny, black Demon with its glossy silver mag wheels, jacked-up rear end and racing slicks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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