单词 | jack up |
释义 | jack up1informal 1Inject oneself with an illegal drug.Eric was just tired and still a little jacked up on drugs, then they did some therapy and he got even more tired....
2Australian Give up or refuse to participate in something.And it's the same with ADHD, there's a continuum of this behaviour and it gets to a point where either the parents, the teachers jack up or doctors say here's the behaviour beyond which we would say this is a disease. See parent entry: jack jack-up2noun 1 (also jack-up rig) An offshore drilling rig the legs of which are lowered to the seabed from the operating platform.Aminex chief executive Brian Hall said: ‘We have carefully reviewed all the drilling options for Nyuni and conclude that a jack-up rig is the most effective and appropriate option for drilling in this area.’...
2NZ informal A dishonest or underhand way of achieving something.The editor of the Sunday Star-Times has embarked on one of the most transparently unprofessional jack-ups in New Zealand's journalistic history....
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