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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word jack ups:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack-ups: Merriam-Webster
  2. jack-ups, jack-ups, jack ups: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jack-ups: Wordnik
  4. jack-ups: Wiktionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jack-ups, jack ups: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jack_up as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jack up)

verb:  To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
verb:  (informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
verb:  (colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive and intransitive, dialect, West Country and Australia) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
verb:  (New Zealand) To organise something.
verb:  (basketball, colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To improve or embellish on (something).
verb:  (informal) To refuse to follow an order.
verb:  (informal) To criticize, discipline or reprimand.
▸ Also see jack_up


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