Wiktionary
vb. 1 To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means. 2 (context informal English) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. 3 (context colloquial English) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for (term: fuck up). 4 (context obsolete transitive and intransitive dialect West England and Australia English) To give up; to abandon (something); to jig up, throw up, chuck up (give up, concede); to discontinue; to leave a job, break a contract; to jack in 5 (context NZ English) To organise something. 6 (context basketball colloquial English) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
WordNet
v. lift with a special device; "jack up the car so you can change the tire" [syn: jack]
Usage examples of "jack up".
She seemed terrified at her husband's approach, and lifting Jack up by his collar, threw him into the oven to hide him, and shut the door: but he could peep into the room through a crack invisible on the outside.
I wouldn't want to be the one to tell you how to do your job, but understatement will jack up the drama.
If you see any hint of a change, hurry upstairs and wake Jack up, right away.
Jackson's shoulder caught his friend's chest, and the pilot wrapped Jack up in a bear hug, trying to push him backward as three photographers recorded the scene.
He'd had to jack up his schooner and build half a mile of ways before he could get her back into the sea.