Usually means: Raise something using a mechanical device.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack-up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jack-up, jack up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jack-up, jack-up, jack up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jack up: Vocabulary.com
  5. jack-up: Wordnik
  6. jack-up, jack up: Wiktionary
  7. jack-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. jack-up, jack up: Dictionary.com
  9. Jack-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. jack up: Rhymezone
  11. jack up: Phrasal Verb Page
  12. jack up: Free Dictionary
  13. jack up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. jack up: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  15. jack up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jack up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jack up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jack up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jack up: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. jack up, jack up, jack up, jack up, jack up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jack-up: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Jack-up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. jack-up, jack up: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See jack_ups 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.

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