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To ruin; wreck; mess up; screw up; sometimes as a bowdlerized substitution for f** up.
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I'm not letting him use my computer again; he always jacks it up.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- mop up
- muck about
- put down
- read out
- run about
- run by
- run over
- run through
- take on
- a notch above
- at home
- be of two minds
- beside oneself
- blow off steam
- cheek by jowl
- come hell or high water
- deep water
- don't get me started
- eat one's hat
- false step
- flesh out
- get it on
- get one's act together
- give birth
- honest-to-goodness
- how's tricks
- in black and white
- in one hell of a hurry
- in the nick of time
- lucky break
- make an honest woman
- nuts and bolts
- off the mark
- old school
- on hold
- on one's toes
- on steroids
- on the spot
- on thin ice
- one-off
- out of house and home
- out of this world
- party pooper
- penny pincher
- put one over
- quarter past
- rainy day
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- state of affairs
- stepping stone
- streak of good luck
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