English Dictionary

jack up

動詞

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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.

日本語の意味

ジャッキなどの器具を使って物を持ち上げる / （非公式な表現で）価格や料金、レートなどを急激に上げる、引き上げる

When the delivery truck broke down, we had to jack up the rear axle to change the flat tire.

配送トラックが故障したとき、パンクしたタイヤを交換するために後部のアクスルをジャッキで持ち上げなければなりませんでした。

意味（1）

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

He jacked the car up to change the tire

意味（2）

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

I can't believe they're going to jack up the price of gasoline again — and after they already raised it twenty cents a gallon!

意味（3）

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

I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.

意味（4）

(obsolete, transitive and intransitive, dialect, West Country and Australia) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)

Says I, “Let's jack up, man alive, / An' try further down on the Creek!” / “All right!” says my mate, “but we'll drive / Right an' left to the end of this week.”

意味（5）

(New Zealand) To organise something.

意味（6）

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

jacks up （ present singular third-person ）

jacking up （ participle present ）

jacked up （ participle past ）

jacked up （ past ）