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— English words —

• jack-up n. An increase or rise; usually said of prices, fees, or rates.
• jack-up n. (Often attributive) A machine that utilizes jacks or hydraulic lifts.
• jack␣up v. To raise, hoist, or lift a thing using a jack, or similar means.
• jack␣up v. (Informal) To raise, increase, or accelerate; often said of prices, fees, or rates.
• jack␣up v. (Colloquial) To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for fuck up.
• jack␣up v. (Obsolete, transitive and intransitive, dialect, West Country and Australia) To give up; to abandon…
• jack␣up v. (New Zealand) To organise something.
• jack␣up v. (Basketball, colloquial) To shoot, especially in the context of a poor shot opportunity.

— English words, defined in French —

• jack␣up v. Lever avec un cric.
• jack␣up v. (Informel) Augmenter un prix.

64 English words from 8 English definitions

abandon accelerate and attributive Australia Basketball bowdlerized colloquial context Country dialect especially fees for fuck fuck␣up give give␣up hoist hydraulic increase Informal intransitive jack jacks lift lifts machine means mess mess␣up New New␣Zealand Obsolete of␣a often opportunity organise poor prices raise rates rise ruin said screw screw␣up shoot shot similar something sometimes substitution that the thing transitive using usually utilizes West West␣Country wreck Zealand

3 English words from 2 foreign definitions

Augmenter cric Lever

3 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

avec Informel prix

2 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

jack-ups jack-up-the-orchard

5 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK JAC jack Jack

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

jacks␣up jack-ups

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

pucka

10 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

backup back-up back␣up cack␣up pack-up pack␣up rack␣up sack␣up tack-up tack␣up

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

jacks␣up

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