Jacked up

[goingtocalifornia]

Jacked up - not proper (question)
Is “jacked up” American slang only, and not English, is it slang at all?

Thank you

[Rover_KE]

Context?

[goingtocalifornia]

Context?

Let me ask you a question.


Just us.


How did you...


...pull it back together
after what happened to you?


You don't.


I'm sorry.


- No, no.
- Jacked-up question, man.


It's a fair question. You...


You become someone else.


A stranger.


You must have loved him very much.


Yeah.


Sometimes that just makes it harder,
you know. You just wish you didn't.


So, come on, some more cop stuff.


- Or are we done?
- No, l... We're good.


Thanks.

[goingtocalifornia]

I think my question was one of those jacked-up questions.

It’s good to know whether slang you came across in American English you could also use in Great Britain. Like flossing which apparently means also “showing off” in America and not known in the UK (as “showing off” of course).

[Tdol]

I've not come across it in BrE. It sounds good, though.

[SanMar]

Jacked up also means being on some kind of drug that makes you wired.

What was wrong with him?
-Oh he was all jacked up on coke.

It's not unknown but it isn't one of the really popular expressions as far as I know, in Canada that is.

Not a teacher.

[bhaisahab]

The verb "to jack up" was used in the 70s to mean "to inject heroin".

[SanMar]

The verb "to jack up" was used in the 70s to mean "to inject heroin".

Interesting, I'd never heard of that. I've heard "to shoot up".

Not a teacher.

[Tdol]

Both were used in BrE.

[Vidor]

"jacked up"--messed up, broken, damaged

Like flossing which apparently means also “showing off” in America

No. The only meaning I have ever heard for "flossing" is the dental hygiene one.