Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) to criticize, to rebuke, to discipline or call to account.

1896		Ade Artie (1963) 63: He was goin’ to clean up the streets and jack up the coppers and build some schoolhouses.
1909		S. Ford Honk, Honk! 33: Honest, if I’d been a school kid bein’ jacked up for forgettin’ his lesson, I couldn’t have felt any cheaper.
1914		Ade ‘The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite’ in Ade’s Fables 27: Loretta pried herself away [...] in order to hike to the corner and jack up Mr. Grocer about the Kindling Wood that he had sent them for Celery.
1928		Thurman & Rapp Harlem in Coll. Writings (2003) 354: Colored folks don’t like the idea of being jacked up by colored cops. We gotta be careful, or they’ll frame us.
1931		(con. 1900) C.W. Willemse Behind The Green Lights 50: Headquarters jacks up the inspector. He jacks up the precinct commanders. They, in turn, get after the sergeants and the latter jump on the patrolmen.
1951		Green & Laurie Show Biz from Vaude to Video 167: Winchell, grateful for the tips but puzzled, came out one day and asked Sime why. ‘Walter,’ he said, ‘I give you tips to use so I can jack up my staff for being scooped.’.
1969		H. Rap Brown Die Nigger Die! 78: I got switched to the police-community relations program, which was O.K. with me ’cause I wanted to jack up the police anyway.
2017		D. Winslow The Force [ebook] Marcus stands there wide-eyed; he’s never seen big Dante get jacked up before and he kind of likes it.

2. (US) to suspend in disgrace, to take disciplinary action.

1898		H.E. Hamblen General Manager’s Story 298: The engineer was, of course, discharged; and the head brakeman [...] was jacked up for thirty days.
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 334: IAD could jack him up for it [...] but the girl would never testify.