jacked

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past tense and past participle of jack entry 2

jacked

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adjective

ˈjakt 

variants or jacked up

1

informal : very excited, enthused, or energized

The crowd was jacked.

Jacked with adrenaline, he muscled up the long, knuckle-shredding crack …

—Jim Vermeulen

… he still holds a grudge. He has to—that's the way he gets jacked up for every play.

—Gene Wojciechowski

After hours of waiting, all jacked up on coffee and worry, here was something we could do something about.

—P. J. O'Rourke

2

informal, of an automobile : customized to sit higher than usual

The same logic applies to "monster trucks"—trucks that are jacked up with super-high suspension kits and wider wheelbases …

—Brian Prestwood

a car with a jacked rear end

also : greatly enhanced (as in size, style, or performance)

It boasts a healthy inventory of jacked up cars under the tagline, "We specialize in impractical vehicles for middle-aged men."

—Rich Manieri

If you want the GT40 in "Ford v Ferrari" to sound like a jacked 1966 race car rather than a purring 2020 Prius, you need to trick out your TV with a sound bar.

—Rebecca Day

3

usually jacked informal : having or being a highly muscular physique

He was annoying, but with his dark hair, green eyes, and jacked body, Perry was hotter than any man she'd ever seen.

—Chris Clinton

"Let's be real … I've got a receding hairline, I'm slow and I'm probably not the most jacked up with abs and all that, but I'm still going to beat you one-on-one. Settle down."

—Joe Ingles

4

usually jacked up informal : high on drugs and especially stimulant drugs

A Wall Street stockbroker can get jacked up on cocaine before going into the trading pit, yet nobody questions his bottom line.

—Chuck Klosterman

5

usually jacked up informal : injured or hurt

"My neck is pretty jacked up, and a lot of it is because of what I've done in the past."

—David Baas

jack-up

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noun

ˈjak-ˌəp 

: a drilling rig used in offshore drilling whose drilling platform is a barge from which legs are lowered to the bottom when over the drill site and which is raised above the water and supported on the legs to conduct drilling operations

jack up

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verb

jacked up; jacking up; jacks up

transitive verb

1

: to move or lift (something, such as an automobile) with or as if with a jack (see jack entry 1 sense 3a)

She jacked up the car to change the tire.

He jacked up his shorts.

… steel rollers were situated at four points under the timber truss bridge, which had been jacked up above the temporary bridge.

—Civil Engineering

2

a

: to raise the level or amount of (something) : increase

jack up the price

Most loans still do carry a bevy of fees … all of which have been jacked up—in some cases doubled—over the past year.

—Fred R. Bleakley

The club jacked up cash prizes for the race to $514,000, almost double last year's purse.

—Kostya Kennedy

… the city's powerful economy has jacked up demand for dwellings.

—Ralph Bivens

b

: to increase (something) in intensity, scope, etc.

Jill [Gisvold] says she jacked up her training last fall "because I had some shake-ups in my life, and I found that running helped me deal with it."

—Bob Cooper

This Miami Vice rerun is a change-of-pace episode, with the comedy jacked up and the drama toned down.

—TV Guide

c

informal : to cause great excitement, enthusiasm, or energy in (someone)

Nothing jacks up a rabid sports fan more than visiting a modern sports bar armed with a high-tech viewing experience …

—Mike Hale and Melissa Snyder

With lead MC Will.I.Am and bandmates … bounding about the stage like aerobics instructors after a quadruple latte, the group jacked up the crowd with "Let's Get It Started" and its current single, "Don't Phunk With My Heart."

—Dan DeLuca

3

a

informal : to grab, shove, or handle (someone or something) forcefully

One day, some jerk jacked him up against a locker. "I'm in the air, feet dangling," recalls [Jim] Shea …

—Anne Marie Cruz

b

informal : to cause injury to (someone or something)

Saturday I jacked up my neck and shoulder while I was warming up to play golf.

—Patrick Dix

c

informal : to beat up or hurt (someone)

A Gainesville man with a history of battery convictions has been charged with child abuse after police say he admitted to "jacking up" an 11-year-old boy, resulting in bruises still visible to officers three days later.

—Sean P. McCrory

d

informal : to treat or confront (someone) in a harassing, rough, or overly aggressive and typically unwarranted manner

In recent months, the service has increasingly been contacted by youths who say they were "jacked up" by police—stopped suddenly by anti-gang officers, frisked, questioned and sometimes roughed up, [David] Lynn said.

—Los Angeles Times

And in the course of being jacked up by the police, many claim they have been man-handled or physically mistreated.

—Jeff Yang

Examples of jacked in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

In a lesser movie, he would be played for laughs as a jacked doofus; here, the character is more nuanced—Eivind seems like a sexy, emotionally plausible alternative to Aksel. —Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025

Of course, there's one dude who's absolutely jacked. —Dalton Ross, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2025

Noun

Additionally, about one-third of the global jack-up fleet is approaching or has exceeded retirement age, suggesting a likely decrease in available equipment going forward. —Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024

Soon after it was built, the grab was used by the global salvage firm Ardent to clear wreckage from the Troll Solution, a jack-up offshore oil rig that collapsed in 2015. —Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2024

Verb

And if [local governments] jack up sales tax and water and other fees, they get harmed. —Jim Defede, CBS News, 31 May 2026

Overall, this reflects that South Florida hasn’t been able to benefit by jacking up prices for short-term rentals for the tournament, Gallagher said. —Miami Herald, 28 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

circa 1935, in the meaning defined at sense 4

Noun

1961, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1853, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for jacked

• abstract
• attacked
• attract
• contact
• contract
• detract
• distract
• enact
• exact
• extract
• hijacked
• impact