Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
jack .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Thanks you bunch of limp wrists. .thanks for once again jacking it up the peoples'wazoo. .thanks for making mr climate change al the bore gore a billionaire. .a world leader?? ..
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I tell her it's 'cause I love her but, fact is, with all the call jacking going on, the company wants me available.
Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010
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Nice job in jacking the federal debt to bankruptcy levels.
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In fact the name jacking after it, then all the post that appear to have tried to bury it.
Think Progress » Senate Intel Chairman warns of Iran drumbeat. 2007
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The name jacking is my biggest complaint, it just makes things either really weird or just plain assinine.
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I just flagged @13 myself for name jacking as well.
Think Progress » Former Bush Treasury Secretary Describes Eric Cantor As A Policy Dunce 2010
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Until TP wishes to fix the name jacking problem and do something about it then we all face this problem.
Think Progress » Former Bush Treasury Secretary Describes Eric Cantor As A Policy Dunce 2010
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I though so thats why i voted the name jacking jackoff.
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Until TP wishes to fix the name jacking problem and do something about it then we all face this problem.
Think Progress » Former Bush Treasury Secretary Describes Eric Cantor As A Policy Dunce 2010
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Just like every other right wing troll freeman cries “name jacking”.
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The past few years have seen the rise of “sim jacking,” in which a hacker will convince a phone carrier that they’ve lost their SIM card and request that number be transferred to a new card.
Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked — and he's the CEO of Twitter | CNN Business Kevin Collier,Ahiza Garcia 2019
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