English
jacked up
Jacked up comes from English jack ‘raise with a jack’.
- English1500–presentjack‘raise with a jack’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010jacked up
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentjack‘raise with a jack’
- Englishearliest quotation 2010jacked up
Earliest quotation: 2010, Smokie Brannaman, Equiknowlogy 101: “The longer I ride my horse, the more jacked-up…”
Made of the words jacked + up
Proto-Germanic *upp ‘up’
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up ‘to a vertical axis’
English up
Linked words
through English jack ‘raise with a jack’
Today it means
adj Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English jack / jacked up