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jacks up

vb. (en-third-person singularjack up)

Usage examples of "jacks up".

The circle is one link shorter, the enemy jacks up the odds just a little bit more, and defenders of the faith need something to take off the chill.

You'd be surprised how sheer panic jacks up the old cerebral output .

The new law substantially jacks up the cost of the Everglades project by requiring land purchases to be negotiated under the state's condemnation law, instead of the U.

We Noifs have a spring-gun in our heads, so to speak, and it solves each problem as we meet it, but each time it jacks up into position a new problem.