| 单词 | to jack up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto jack up to jack up 1. transitive. ΚΠ 1840 Bradford Observer 23 Apr. A Room in the Roof, which is jacked up 3 feet 6 inches high. b. To raise or lift (an object, esp. a vehicle) with a jack (Jack n.2 11). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > lifting or hoisting equipment to wind upc1275 windc1440 sling1522 crane1570 hoise1573 pulley1581 tackle1711 lewis1837 teagle1841 to jack up1853 windlass1870 whorl1886 luff1913 1853 Boston Daily Atlas 10 Jan. A freight car, which was jacked up for the purpose of repairing. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Mar. 6/1 To ‘jack-up’ a seven-ton engine and replace it on the rails. 1931 Autocar 2 Jan. 34/2 A naughty travelling marshal shamelessly jacked up one wheel of his car. 1971 J. D. MacDonald Seven (1974) iii. 46 When we decided to give up the apple stand, I said it might make a nice little cabin. My husband Ralph jacked it up and put it on a flatbed wagon. 2013 Chron. (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Dec. a14 I had already jacked up the car, however I was unable to loosen the nuts on the wheel. c. colloquial (originally U.S.). To raise, increase (esp. a price, tax, rent, etc.); to hike. Also: to boost (an economy).In quot. 1884: to force up the price of (a stock) artificially. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (transitive)] echeOE ekec1200 multiplya1275 morea1300 increase13.. vaunce1303 enlargec1380 augmenta1400 accrease1402 alargea1425 amply?a1425 great?1440 hainc1440 creasec1475 grow1481 amplea1500 to get upa1500 improve1509 ampliatea1513 auge1542 over1546 amplify1549 raise1583 grand1602 swell1602 magnoperate1610 greaten1613 accresce1626 aggrandize1638 majoratea1651 adauge1657 protend1659 reinforce1660 examplify1677 pluralize1750 to drive up1817 to whoop up1856 to jack up1884 upbuild1890 steepen1909 up1934 1884 Glasgow Herald 18 Mar. 7/5 Stocks were ‘jacked up’. 1904 N.Y. Tribune 8 May 10 The management thought it saw a chance to jack up rents, and made a sudden announcement of a raise. 1959 Economist 7 Feb. 504/1 At his first trial, Cho Bong-Am got only five years, but a second trial jacked this up to capital punishment. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 44 Mr. Heath unveiled the plans to jack up the punctured local economies. 1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 13 Mar. 1 i M&Ms, crushed Oreo cookies and carob-covered raisons [sic] jack up the bulge quotient. 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Apr. 8/1 The companies jacked up our prices by another 17.1 percent last year. d. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). To rouse from apathy, stir up; to encourage, inspire to action. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate stirc897 putOE sputc1175 prokec1225 prickc1230 commovec1374 baitc1378 stingc1386 movea1398 eager?a1400 pokec1400 provokea1425 tollc1440 cheera1450 irritec1450 encourage1483 incite1483 harden1487 attice1490 pricklea1522 to set on1523 incense1531 irritate1531 animate1532 tickle1532 stomach1541 instigate1542 concitea1555 upsteer1558 urge1565 instimulate1570 whip1573 goad1579 raise1581 to set upa1586 to call ona1592 incitate1597 indarec1599 alarm1602 exstimulate1603 to put on1604 feeze1610 impulse1611 fomentate1613 emovec1614 animalize1617 stimulate1619 spura1644 trinkle1685 cite1718 to put up1812 prod1832 to jack up1914 goose1934 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > stir up or rouse up stirc1000 aweccheOE stirc1175 arear?c1225 awakec1315 amovec1330 araisec1374 wake1398 wakenc1400 to stir upa1500 incend?1504 to firk upc1540 bestir1549 store1552 bustlea1555 tickle1567 solicitate1568 to stir one's taila1572 exsuscitate1574 rouse1574 suscitate1598 accite1600 actuate1603 arousea1616 poach1632 roust1658 to shake up1850 to galvanize to or into life1853 to make things (or something specified) hum1884 to jack up1914 rev1945 1914 S. H. Adams Clarion ix. 100 I think I'll jack up our boys in the city room by hinting that there may be a shake-up coming under the new owner. 1920 Sun (Christchurch, N.Z.) 31 Jan. 9/5 It is about time this sleepy Government was jacked up a bit. 1954 A. W. LeVier & J. Guenther Pilot 123 This only served to jack you up and get you back on the ball. 2014 AutoWeek 21 July 48/1 Granted, the timed, two- or three-round knockout format beats the old single-car runs, but it hasn't jacked up fan interest as much as officials had expected. 2. transitive. a. slang. Originally among railway workers: to take disciplinary action against (a person, esp. an employee); esp. to suspend from duty. Frequently in passive. ΚΠ 1861 Bristol Mercury 31 Aug. 6/6 Their doings were not known to Mr. Brotherhood, or they would be soon ‘jacked up’. 1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story xviii. 298 The engineer was, of course, discharged; and the head brakeman..was jacked up for thirty days. 1909 Railway Carmen's Jrnl. June 316/2 We, to keep from being ‘jacked up’, work ourselves to death. 2006 G. Pelecanos Night Gardener xxxvi. 335 IAD could jack him up for it..but the girl would never testify. b. U.S. colloquial. To call (a person or institution) to account for a misdemeanour or misconduct; to take to task, upbraid, reprimand. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] edwitec825 shendc897 lehtriec1000 atwiteOE gaba1200 begredec1200 tucka1225 reprove?1316 braidc1325 abraidc1330 upbraida1340 reprocec1350 reprucec1350 umbraida1393 reproacha1400 brixlec1400 saya1470 embraid1481 outbraid1509 check1526 twit1530 entwite1541 broide1546 taunt1560 upbray1581 improperate1623 betwit1661 to jack up1896 1896 G. Ade Artie xii. 107 He was goin' down to the city hall and change the whole works. He was goin' to clean the streets and jack up the coppers. 1908 H. M. Bush Diary Enlisted Man 40 The sixth captain was ‘jacking up’ a couple of his men about something. 1936 J. Tully Bruiser v. 53 He's always jackin' me up like I was some stumble bum, an' not a comin' champeen. 1969 J. A. Al-Amin Die Nigger Die! vii. 78 I got switched to the police-community relations program, which was O.K. with me 'cause I wanted to jack up the police anyway. 1983 P. Dexter God's Pocket i. 6 I see him over there jackin' up Old Lucy, and it ain't going to end. 3. transitive. colloquial and regional. To put in a bad state or situation; to ruin, spoil, mess up. Cf. jacked-up adj. 1.Originally in passive (with unexpressed agent). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > make relinquishment [verb (intransitive)] to take leavelOE resign1602 to jack up1870 chuckc1879 the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] forsakec893 forlet971 to reach upOE agiveOE yield?c1225 uptake1297 up-yield1297 yield1297 deliverc1300 to-yielda1375 overgivec1384 grant1390 forbeara1400 livera1400 forgoc1400 upgive1415 permit1429 quit1429 renderc1436 relinquish1479 abandonc1485 to hold up?1499 enlibertyc1500 surrender1509 cess1523 relent1528 to cast up?1529 resignate1531 uprender1551 demit1563 disclaim1567 to fling up1587 to give up1589 quittance1592 vail1593 enfeoff1598 revoke1599 to give off1613 disownc1620 succumb1632 abdicate1633 delinquish1645 discount1648 to pass away1650 to turn off1667 choke1747 to jack up1870 chuck up (the sponge)1878 chuckc1879 unget1893 sling1902 to jack in1948 punt1966 to-leave- the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 1870 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 15 June 4/4 There is a party gone out in that boat to go round the ships at spithead, and if they do they are sure to be jacked up soon. 1881 M. Reynolds Engine-driving Life 66 To burn a fire-box, burns your name into the locomotive superintendant's black-book, and there you are jacked up for ever. 1957 H. Hall Parish's Dict. Sussex Dial. (new ed.) 67/1 We were having a good game till you came and jacked it up. 2009 L. Sandoval Lexy's Little Matchmaker 99 She'd changed clothes a zillion times, which of course..jacked up her hair. 4. colloquial. ΚΠ 1871 Leeds Mercury 16 Aug. 4/1 Whoever ‘jacked up,’..should return the amount of his passage money. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 84 Jack-up, to give up anything from pride, impudence, or bad temper. ‘They kep' on one wik, and then they all jacked-up.’ 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xix. 256 [It] took a deal of punishment before he jacked up. b. transitive. To give up, abandon (a pursuit, practice, occupation, etc.). Cf. to jack in at Phrasal verbs, to chuck up at chuck v.2 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > abandon or relinquish (an activity or occupation) remit1587 to give up1589 quit1607 to give off1613 to get out of ——1632 ding1852 to jack up1880 jack1902 to throw in1951 toss in1956 1880 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. The Liberal canvassers..became dissatisfied and threatened to ‘Jack up’ their books. 1897 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 795 About 16 per cent ‘jack it up’ and go back to the slough and mire. 1909 A. H. Cocks 3rd Contrib. Bucks. Vocab. in Rec. Bucks. 9 148 I jacked up work at five o'clock. 1972 J. B. Keane Lett. Irish Parish Priest 63 If he don't mind his own business I might jack the whole thing up. c. intransitive. Originally and chiefly Australian. To refuse to cooperate or participate; to refuse to work. ΚΠ 1898 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Romance of Canvas Town 253 As a man, a gentleman, and a squatter, I ‘jacked up’ at the cookery. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger 470 Grandfather always took Grandma with him everywhere until she jacked up. 1969 Guardian 22 Nov. 7/4 Occasionally they can jack up altogether when they are imposed upon. 2014 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 8 Feb. 1 They'd just jack up and go on strike. 5. transitive. New Zealand slang. a. To make or prepare (esp. food or drink); to arrange, organize, contrive. Also in to jack it up. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] rightlOE attire1330 ettlea1350 to set (also put) in rulea1387 redress1389 dress?a1400 fettlea1400 governc1405 yraylle1426 direct1509 settlec1530 tune1530 instruct1534 rede1545 commodate1595 square1596 concinnate1601 concinnea1620 rectify1655 fix1663 to put (also bring) into repair1673 arrange1802 pipeclay1806 to get together1810 to do up1886 to jack up1939 1939–45 Expressions & Sayings 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force in Dict. N.Z. Eng. (1997) 420/1 Jack up, prepare anything. 1942 NZEF Times 7 Sept. 5 In recent weeks NCO's have had a trying time ‘jacking up’ all sorts of things. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxvi. 187 I've jacked up a hot snack for the end of the shoot. 1950 A. R. D. Fairburn Let. 10 June (1981) 196 You can surely jack up some pretext for flying north. 1956 D. M. Davin Sullen Bell i. iii. 24 I've jacked it up to stay the night with a friend of mine. 1985 J. J. Stewart Gumboots & Goalposts 91 ‘I'll jack-up someone to referee,’ Walton volunteered. 2005 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 19 Nov. We finally jacked it up with a telephone conference call. b. Originally Military. To fix up, sort out; esp. to settle (a person) in a new place (also in passive with unexpressed agent). Also reflexive: to settle in. ΚΠ 1944 E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Middle East 13/3 May take a year to jack it up again. 1946 E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Italy 44 They've had plenty of time to jack themselves up by now. 1971 N.Z. Listener 22 Mar. 13/1 I'll see you right at a boardin' place until you get jacked up. 2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 15 Mar. Pacific Island people are increasingly getting the opportunity to live in New Zealand without having to rely on relatives already here to jack them up with jobs. 6. transitive. U.S. colloquial. To assault (a person); to beat up, mug. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > attack and rob huff1832 garrotte1858 mug1864 to jack up1965 steam1987 1965 Esquire July 45/2 They jacked him up in a hallway. 1979 E. Torres After Hours xviii. 169 By Thursday they'll jack somebody up to get money for the weekend. 2002 J. Lerner You got Nothing Coming i. 50 This fucking bullshit is outta line! In Kansas we'd of jacked up a few cops. 7. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. transitive. To excite or exhilarate (a person) with, or as if with, a recreational drug; to stimulate (mentally or physically).Sometimes overlapping with sense 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > have intoxicating effect on [verb (transitive)] intoxicatea1566 besot1627 buzz1927 stone1959 to jack up1966 wipe1972 1966 F. Elli Riot i. 11 Damn Benny inhalers were expensive... Even so, if a man wanted to stay alive in a graveyard like this, he had to jack up his wig on something once in a while. 1967 F. Reynolds & M. McClure Freewheelin Frank v. 55 An acid high, LSD high, jacks you up stimulant-wise. 1986 D. Davin Salamander & Fire 52 I knew I was too tired for any amount of gin to jack me up. 1996 Sports Illustr. 19 Feb. 32/2 Sacramento coach Garry St. Jean jacked himself up by watching a Ronald Reagan western. 2007 S. Moffie Swap 125 He was going to have to jack himself up with some more caffeine..because he knew it was going to be a long night. b. (a) intransitive. To inject a recreational drug. ΚΠ 1968 T. Jones Drugs & Police ix. 71 (gloss.) Jack up, to inject heroin. 1986 Film Comment 22 38/2 They watched an awful lot of terribly depressing films of people jacking up in bathrooms. 2005 A. Masters Stuart v. 42 Smudger had a lot of friends: they..stole his chewy muesli bars, tinfoil, spoons, matches, then jacked up on the floor and got bored. 2013 FourFourTwo Feb. 56/6 I've never seen someone jacking up but I've heard conversations about what goes on. (b) transitive. To take (a recreational drug), esp. by injection; to inject (oneself) with a recreational drug. ΚΠ 1970 New Society 16 Feb. 309/2 They will ‘jack up’ pills. 1986 B. Geldof & P. Vallely Is that It? (1987) vi. 70 If he jacked himself up in the house, I'd kick him out. Heroin horrified me. 1994 J. Birmingham He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) vi. 127 Kristin..came home and jacked herself up a few spoons of smack. 2011 T. Ronald Becoming Nancy (2012) xix. 258 ‘Bob Lord,’ I sneer, ‘jacking up heroin while he watches the boys in the showers after football.’ < as lemmas |
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