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jack up
verb- to inject drugs US, 1975
- A sensitive and gentle guy. If he could not get junk he would jack up aspirin, he even jacked up in the fingers which had once made music. — Paul E Willis, Profane Culture, p. 184, 1978
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 65, 1996
- Which is why I came here to jack up. — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 164, 2002
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
- to raise US, 1904
- Viceroy Wilson adjusted his Carrera sunglasses, lit up a joint, jacked up the a/c, and mellowed out behind the Caddy’s blue-tinted windows. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 58, 1986
- And this is preferable to you because Music-Town jacks up their prices, and some of this money goes in your pocket. — Empire Records, 1995
- (of the surf) to increase in swell AUSTRALIA
- The lines were jacking up with the tide and pounding the reef. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 188, 1987
- to rob with force US, 1965
- If you give those evil bastards a dime they’ll jack you up for the whole thing. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 85, 31 May 1968: Letter to Carol Hoffman
- By Thursday they’ll jack somebody up to get money for the weekend. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 332, 1979
- to arrest or detain for questioning by police US, 1967
- On each fall he had been “jacked up” for either strong-arm robbery or “till tapping” [stealing money from a cash register drawer]. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 33, 1969
- to be uncooperative; to object, to refuse to comply AUSTRALIA, 1898
- When we made trouble, Tuttle wouldn’t be in it; when the company jacked-up, Tuttle scabbed. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 107, 1954
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