jacked up

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

jack up

  1. To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
  2. (informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
  3. (colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
  4. (Australia, West-Country, dialectal, intransitive, obsolete, transitive) To give up; to abandon (something, e.g. a job, contract)
  5. (New-Zealand) To organise something.
  6. (colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.
  7. (slang, transitive) To improve or embellish on (something).
  8. (informal) To refuse to follow an order.
  9. (informal) To criticize, discipline or reprimand.

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From jack (“raise with a jack”). * “Wrecked, messed up” sense possibly an extension of the “under the influence of stimulants” sense

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