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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dance form originating in the 1980s, involving repeated quick jerking movements of the chest and arms, performed to house music.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or method of using the jack; use of the jack in hunting or fishing: as, jacking for eels. See jack, n., 11 .
  • noun An extra draft given to the roving (in spinning fine cotton yarn on the mule) near the end of the outward traverse of the spindle-carriage.

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  • verb Present participle of jack.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From jack (probably as in jack off, perhaps in reference to the jerking movements and sexualized nature of house dancing).]

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