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Definition: Jack Up |
Jack UpVerb1. Lift with a jack, as of a car. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Jack UpSynonym: jack (v). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Union Jack Up (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Power source for hoisting steel Jack up truck and use "fifth wheel" This could be dangerous - at least one leg broken by getting wrapped up Safety modifications made to system after individual severely injured Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Expression using "jack up": to jack up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
jack up barge | 6 |
band beat ford ingram jack up | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "jack up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skud(tage et) (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), shoot (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), loefte et skib op (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship), fixe (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | spuiten (squirt), shotten (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), pompen (pump), fixen (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), een shotje zetten (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), een schip opvijzelen (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship), een schip oppompen (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nostaa tunkilla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | soulever. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | treiben (battue, be adrift, be up to, beat, bring, carry on, chase, commit, create, do, drift, drive, drive on, enchase, float, force, hustle and bustle, impel, leaven, make, make rise, move, propel, pursue, push, push out, put forth, put out, rush, shoo, sprout, swirling, throw out, thrust, to enchase, urge, work, wreak), in die höhe treiben, aufbocken (lay up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτοανυψόμενος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemrehányást tesz (to blame, to jack up, to rebuke, to reproach, to upbraid), megemel (lift, to jack up, to raise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mendongkrak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | farsi una pera (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), bucarsi (shoot up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | croghey (bank on, climb, cling, depend, drape, fly, hang, hinge, hinge as story, hoist, lean on, loft, pendant, pitch, sheer, spring, suspension, swing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ackjay upay picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), dar um fixo (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot), chutar (kick), caldar (to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to mainline, to shoot). (various references) ridica cu cricul (Jack). (various references) aumentar (accrue, add to, advance, amplify, augment, boost, bulk, enhance, expand, extend, freshen, gear up, get up, grow, heighten, hike, hike up, improve, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mark up, Mount, pile on, put up, step up, swell, up, upturn), alzar con gato. (various references) lyfta (elevate, get off the ground, heave, heft, hump, Jack, lift, pitchfork, raise, take up, throw up, uplift), hissa (fly, hoist, Jack, lever, lift, pulley, raise, run up), höja (advance, appreciate, boost, enhance, improve, inflate, lift, perk, raise, uplift, work up). (various references) เพิ่มราคาหรือค่าจ้าง (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), กระตุ้นให้รับผิ"ชอบ, ยกรถขึ้น"้วยเครื่องมือ, ยก"้วยแม่แรง, ขึ้นราคาสูงมาก. (various references) yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), kriko ile kaldırmak, kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, rear, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise). (various references) піднімати домкратом. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Jack Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jackup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-j-k-p-u" | |
-1 letter: pucka. | |
-2 letters: jack, jauk, jaup, pack, puck, puja. | |
-3 letters: auk, cap, cup, pac. | |
-4 letters: ka, pa, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-j-k-p-u" | |
+4 letters: supplejack. | |
+5 letters: supplejacks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 63 6B      55 70 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a c k   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 0063 006B      0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4467697725582 |
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