to jack up
4
4.3
- phrasal verb
- /dʒæk ʌp/
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- In front of the station, a cab is jacked up; the driver is replacing a flat.
- jack up the car
- jack up the truck
- jack up the whole house
He also drives around town in his jacked up truck covered in little Dick memorabilia AKA Trump flags and bumper stickers.
- He also drives around town in his jacked up truck covered in little Dick memorabilia AKA Trump flags and bumper stickers.
Examples
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I jacked the car up.
Fiction book (1994) -
They watch in silence as Marvin jacks up his car.
Fiction book (1991) -
Had to jack the car up and put boards under it.
Fiction book (1993) -
- Hey, I jacked up the car.
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You get Jo's car jacked up.
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The pickup had been jacked up so the thirty-six-inch wheels would fit halfway under the frame.
Fiction book (1999) -
He pulls off his shirt, jacks the car up, and begins replacing the wheel with ease.
Fiction book (1993) -
You won't know till you either jack up the front end, put some jack stands, and run it in gear D in auto or 2nd in a manual.
Blog text (28) -
Cursing, he spent an hour with the jeep jacked up, struggling to remove the wheel nuts, which had been almost cemented into place by a mixture of grease and desert sand.
Fiction book (1994) -
To change the flat tire, you need to jack up the car first.
Synonyms
834
1.0
To lift something or someone from the ground with your hands
553
1.0
To raise something higher by hand or with a machine
107
1.1
To raise someone or something to a higher place
79
4.7
To lift heavy things using ropes, pulleys, or a machine
32
5.2
To raise a car or other vehicle with a lifting tool
21
2.5
To push someone up from below so they reach a higher place
11
2.1
Move something to a higher place by pushing from below or behind
7
2.1
To lift something or someone to a higher place
5
5.9
To pull something up using a machine with a rope or cable
3
4.5
To lift something heavy with a lot of effort
1
3.9
To lift a car off the ground with a jack to fix or change a part
1
3.7
To lift or move heavy things using a tall machine with a long arm
1
6.1
To lift something with effort to see how heavy it is
To lift something to a higher position
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to increase or raise' is directly derivable from combining 'jack' (to lift or raise, especially with a jack) with 'up' (to a higher position): the physical sense of lifting extends straightforwardly to raising amounts or levels. This metaphoric extension is a common and predictable composition pattern in English (and in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will very likely infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Jack up comes from the tool called a jack and the word up, because people use a jack to lift a car off the ground. So it now means 'to lift something, especially a vehicle, off the ground'.