jack v.3
1. (orig. US) to steal (from), to hijack, to take forcibly.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Coconut Oil 94: That’s the third giraffe they jacked offen us today. | |
| Duke 116: I sent some of the boys out to jack some juice. | |
| Men of the Und. 323: Jack, To rip open. | |
| Felony Tank (1962) 124: I wish I had a gun. I’d sure jack some money out of this town in a hurry. | |
| ‘Grand Larceny’ 🎵 You’ll still get jacked / By the show stealer, crime rhyme dealer. | |
| ‘Lil’ Ghetto Boy’ 🎵 I guess that’s what I get (for what) / For trying to jack them little homies for they bread. | |
| (con. 1990s) One of the Guys 134: ‘They had jacked the pizza man [...] One of them jacked this girl for a dollar’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Londonstani (2007) 164: Nah, man, we don’t jack nuffink. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Drawing Dead [ebook] Rumblings about a chunk of money stolen [...] got jacked in transit. | |
| Attack the Block [film script] 41: Then Moses got shiffed by the feds and them things attacked the bully van and savaged the bluefoot so we jacked the van. | |
| Sellout (2016) 282: It’s their first night in the ghetto and they’re afraid the goats and pigs are going to jack them. | |
| ‘Lyrics’ 🎵 I'm gonna jack manaman, take your rings / And all of your bling. | |
| Squeeze Me 50: ‘Who’d want to jack a dead twenty-foot snake?’. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 26: He [...] jacked the register. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 178: Two trucks [...] are jacked at a rest stop off the 101. |
2. to seduce.
| Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 15: The penalty for jacking with another man’s woman is, of course, death by drowning. |
3. (drugs) to steal someone else’s drugs.
| Corner (1998) 22: But DeAndre would carry that; getting jacked now and again was, after all, a part of the game. | |
| Stump 140: Jacked a twelve-year-old kid [...] This kid was only one of Tommy’s friggin couriers. | |
| ‘Houston’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] I had the two biggest drug dealers in four counties trying to raise me on the phone, unaware as of yet that they’d been jacked. |
4. (US) to search.
| ‘Fuck Tha Police’ 🎵 I’m tired of the motherfuckin jackin / Sweatin my gang. | |
| Corner (1998) 50: She [...] watches as the knockers roll up to the carryout, jack the corner boys against the wall and come up empty. | |
| No Lights, No Sirens 104: They [...] would have to be proficient in telling the difference between the real junkies and the undercovers looking to jack the spot . |
5. (US) to tease, to cajole.
| Leather Maiden 123: She kept egging him, on jacking with him. |
6. (US) to arrest.
| August Snow [ebook] ‘Wha’s the po-po jack yo ass fo?’. |
In phrases
(US) to steal electricity (e.g. to power turnatbles, speakers, etc) by accessing connections on a lightpole.
| Adventures 61: I'd break open a faceplate on a lightpole and [. . .] I could split the wires, step the power down, and make it all work [but] whenever Miss Rose was around, we didn’t have to jack into nothing. |
(US prison) to waste time, to mess up recreation by causing a disturbance.
| Other Side of the Wall: Prisoner’s Dict. July 🌐 Jackin’ Rec: (1) Wasting time. (El Reno, OK). (2) Ruining someones recreation time by causing a disruption. |