Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to assault, to attack, to beat up, to hold up, to mug; usu. in a group.

1967		P. Thomas Down These Mean Streets (1970) 267: That motherjumper wants to punk me and he said if I didn’t punk out, him and his boys would jack me up.
1970		B. Seale Seize the Time 24: The sergeant [...] jacked me up, got his arm around my neck [and] pulled me back.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 48: This dude jacked me up for my leather piece.
1991		B. McCarthy Vice Cop 266: ‘[A]s soon as I leave these cops are going to start to beat the crap out of the Gaglianos. They will jack them up’.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 50: This fucking bullshit is outta line! In Kansas we’d of jacked up a few cops.
2013		T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] ‘I’m not saying we don’t jack this boy up six ways to Sunday [but] we leave the fucker alive’.
2014		T. Black Artefacts of the Dead [ebook] I’m not someone you can jack up for a few quid.

2. (also jack) to have sexual intercourse.

1973		(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘A Dangerous Place’ in Snatches and Lays 56: While on the floor, jacked up a whore, / Was my uncle, Dan McGraw.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 152: The same terms used to characterize physical assault are also used to connote sexual intercourse [...] to jack up, to throw.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak 78: Jack [...] 2. to copulate.
2013		Mavado ‘Agony’ 🎵 Me buck a gyal / [...] / She cock it up, me jack it up.

3. of the police, to interrogate; to stop and search.

1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 28: I got jacked up and shook down so many times it seemed like my pockets were always inside out.
1981		J. Wambaugh Glitter Dome (1982) 81: It wasn’t a damn bit funny when Sybil Woofer and her best friend Mrs Commander Peterson, were jacked-up by two cops with shotguns.
1991		D. Simon Homicide (1993) 487: You jack him up, find the dope or the gun.
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 66: Jacked up by the same police who use the same tricks to gather the same evidence from the same corners.

4. to arrest, to be charged, to be jailed.

1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 29: On each fall he had been ‘jacked up’ for either strong-arm robbery or till tapping.
1978		R. Caron Go-Boy! 288: Heard you were jacked up on a beef out of Toronto?
2004		J. Ellroy ‘Hot-Prowl Rape-O’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 281: Our officers are afraid to make arrests, because every street creep they jack up is thinking lawsuit.
2006		D. Winslow Winter of Frankie Machine (2007) 134: The feds had a wire tap of him and Jimmy Regace discussing it [i.e. extortion], so they were both jacked up good.
2015		D. Simon on themarshallproject.org 29 Apr. 🌐 Too many officers who came up in a culture that taught them not the hard job of policing, but simply how to roam the city, jack everyone up, and call for the wagon.

5. to take aside for a conversation.

1967

M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 249: O’Brien had you jacked up just before lockup. What’d he want?

6. (US black) to crash an automobile.

1978

R.D. Pharr Giveadamn Brown (1997) 113: ‘Harry is dying at St Luke’s Hospital. He jacked up his car’.

7. to stop.

1994

P. Baker Blood Posse 296: Jack up. I need some cigarettes.

8. see jack v.² (5)