jack up

1. 1.

   lift with a special device

   “jack up the car so you can change the tire”

   Synonymsjack

   Broaderraise

Questions about jack up

What does jack up mean?

jack up means "lift with a special device".

What is another word for jack up?

Close synonyms include jack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jack up a common word?

jack up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.