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单词 to jack around
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to jack around
to jack around
North American colloquial.
1.
a. transitive. To interfere or mess around with (a person or (occasionally) a thing); to inconvenience or make trouble for.In quot. 1924: to manoeuvre or direct (a person).
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1924 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 16 June 5/2 Uncle Robbie has jacked these pitchers around with excellent results.., the Dodgers will be one of the toughest teams in the league to beat.
1943 Miami (Okla.) Daily News-Record 6 July 4/1 If the lid [sc. price ceiling] is taken off enough food items, or jacked around by the OPA to the end the effect's the same, prices..will shoot skyward.
1980 A. Maupin More Tales of City 197 Don't you think I know when people are jacking me around?
2010 I. Nathanson Minneapolis in 20th Cent. 195 Ford confronted Gustafson, declaring angrily, ‘You guys are jacking us around on this.’
b. intransitive. To interfere or mess around with; to cause inconvenience, make trouble.
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1972 D. Jenkins Semi-tough i. 88 He likes to jack around in the stock market with our money.
1987 B. A. Powe Ice Eaters i. xiii. 67 I told them not to jack around with my people while I was gone.
2004 M. Ivins Who let Dogs In? 37 The Bush administration has clearly jacked around with the prosecution of a criminal case.
2. intransitive. To behave in a playful or irresponsible manner; to waste time; to fool around.
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1951 Megaphone (Georgetown, Texas) (Student's Assoc. Southwestern Univ.) 23 Mar. 3/3 This guy after getting the idea..tinkered, puttered, jacked, and fooled around for 15 or 20 years and finally this machine emerged.
1977 Grand Prairie (Texas) Daily News 6 Feb. 3/5 I had to bench a couple of guys because they were jacking around in warmups.
1992 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 13 Nov. a1 If Clark quit jacking around and underwrote that deficit, the problem will be resolved.
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