jack
/ˈd͡ʒæk/ verb C2- To physically raise using a jack. · He jacked the car so that he could replace the brake pads.
- To raise or increase. · If you want to jack your stats you just write off failures as invalid results.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To steal (something), typically an automobile; to rob (someone). · Someone jacked my car last night!
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
- To fight.
- To jerk or move by jerking; to remove or move (something).
He/she/it jacks · Past jacked · Past participle jacked · -ing form jacking
Verb forms
- Base form
- jack
- He/she/it
- jacks
- Past
- jacked
- Past participle
- jacked
- -ing form
- jacking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Andrea, who was sitting before the piano with Mademoiselle Eugénie, started up like a jack-in-the-box.
“Poor Jack is dead!
"Do you like her, Jack?" Holmes turned suddenly upon the boy.
“Well, Jack, you are very hot.”
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