jack-up

[ jak-uhp ]

/ ˈdʒækˌʌp /

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noun Informal.

an increase or rise: a recent jack-up in prices.

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Origin of jack-up

1900–05, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase jack up

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How to use jack-up in a sentence

So Hachette and the other publishers were all ears when Steve Jobs came a-calling with a surefire way to jack up e-book prices.
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One landlord even paid somebody to hurl a Molotov cocktail into an apartment just to smoke out tenants and jack up rents.
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But lack of sleep does more than just jack up your caffeine requirements the following day.
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The company also announced Tuesday that it would jack up its quarterly dividend by 26.7 percent, from 30 cents to 38 percent.
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It helps jack up the level of suspense during pretaped events, the outcome of which most viewers learned hours earlier on Twitter.
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It did not take Uncle Toby long to jack up the car, take off the tire, put in a new tube, and be ready to start again.
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If we jack up that bonetrepannin, he called it toohis brainsd git to be like anybody elses.
Short Stories of the New America|Various
I think I'll jack up our boys in the city room by hinting that there may be a shake-up coming under the new owner.
The Clarion|Samuel Hopkins Adams
You can jack up the back part of an automobile when you could not possibly lift it up.
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If we jack up that bone'—trepannin', he called it too—'his brains'd git to be like anybody else's.'
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British Dictionary definitions for jack-up

jack up

verb (adverb)

(tr) to increase (prices, salaries, etc)

(tr) to raise an object, such as a car, with or as with a jack

(intr) slang to inject oneself with a drug, usually heroin

(intr) Australian informal to refuse to comply; rebel, esp collectively

NZ informal to initiate, organize, or procure

noun jack-up

NZ something that has been contrived or achieved by dishonest means

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