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jack up
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jack up
To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for f** up.
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jack up
To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
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jack up
To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates. See also
jack up
the price.
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jack in
To stop doing a regular activity. Often a job or studies.
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jack in
To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
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jack-tar
Alternative spelling of jacktar.
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every man jack
All the members of a group with no exceptions.
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jack it in
An imperative to stop doing something that the speaker finds annoying.
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jack of all trades
One competent in many endeavors, especially one who excels in none of them.
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every jack has his jill
everybody will find someone to have a romantic relationship with at some point in their life
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before you can say jack robinson
Very quickly. Quicker than you expect.
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all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
Too much focus on one's career is often viewed unfavorably.Too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy.
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jack of all trades, master of none
A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.
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jack of all trades, master of none
A master of integration, who knows enough from many learned trades and skills to be able to bring their disciplines together in a practical manner; a polymath; a renaissance man.
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on the up-and-up
Legitimate; honest; upright.
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put up or shut up
Desist from saying something unless one is able to prove it.
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act up
To misbehave; to cause trouble.
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balls up
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ball up.
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blow up
To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
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board up
To block doors or windows with boards, either to prevent access or as protection from storms, etc.
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boot up
To start a computer using its bootstrap procedure.
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brick up
To block by masonry, particularly using bricks.
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bring up
To bring from a lower position to a higher position.
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buckle up
To fasten one's seat belt or safety belt.
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call up
An order to report for military service.
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cheer up
To become happy.
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clock up
To accumulate a large amount of time.
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dress up
To wear smart clothes for an occasion.
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fix up
To repair or refurbish.
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johned up
To write or say something that doesn't make much sense to other people; inside joke.
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lay up
To store; to put by.
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live up
To fulfil the expectations placed upon.
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pay up
To pay for something in total, after a certain amount of time after receiving a purchase.
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pipe up
To speak up.
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power up
To turn the electrical power on to a device as a precondition to make it operational.
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pump up
To inflate by means of a pump.
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stuff up
To ruin.
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blow up
To inflate or fill with air.
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fire up
To start.
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pick up
To clean up; to return to an organized state.
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pick up
To notice, detect or discern, often used with "on".
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stick up
To rob at gunpoint.
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cook up
To manufacture; to falsify; to devise an elaborate lie.
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mess up
To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
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ramp up
To increase rapidly to a new value.
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chalk up
To attribute, credit, or blame.
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mock up
To create a model or demonstration; to create a preliminary version or sample.
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add up
To take a sum.
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back up
As a security measure.
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ball up
To crush into a ball shape.
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