Sentence examples for are jacked from inspiring English sources

The phrase "are jacked" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts to describe someone who is very muscular or fit.
Example: "After months of intense training, the athletes are jacked and ready for the competition."
Alternatives: "are ripped" or "are buff".

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are jacked

noun

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, e.g. screw jack, scissor jack, hydraulic jack, ratchet jack, scaffold jack.

  • She used a jack to lift her car and changed the tire.

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"The bats are jacked up," said Michael Murray, a former minor league player and a Little League coach for 15 years in Westfield, N.J. "They're dangerous".

If the wheels are jacked up with the transmission in neutral and one of the wheels is turned, the opposite wheel will turn in the opposite direction at the same speed.

Frail japes by the mildly talented Swiss-born sculptor — the international art world's chief gadfly wit since Maurizio Cattelan faded in the role — are jacked up to epic, flauntingly expensive scale.

Yes, wings are on the menu, but they are jacked up with gochujang, Korean fermented soybean and chile paste — borrowed, perhaps, from the larder at Momofuku Noodle Bar, where Mr. Lyons worked for a year.

If you live in Corinth and are jacked in, you could watch the final episode of "The Sopranos" along with the rest of the country and click onto TMZ's continuing ballad of Lindsay, Paris and Britney, there for the plucking.

Tempos are jacked up, and Lars Ulrich's double-bass-drum barrages, the foundation of early Metallica, are back in force, synchronized with bottom-heavy, precision-strummed guitar chords from Mr. Hetfield and Kirk Hammett.

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Those who aren't are jacking up rents.

No surprise, then, that the big telecom companies are jacking up fees for broadband access.

If you are "jacking" a bullfrog, blind it.

Chock (block) the wheels opposite of the end you are jacking.

I'd be jacked.

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