Meaning of jacked himself?
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Would you please tell me what is the meaning of jacked himself in the following text?
His brain dead before it could tell the rest of his body that he'd jacked himself.
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His brain dead before it could tell the rest of his body that he'd jacked himself. The grammar here is incorrect. Say eg His brain was dead before .
- His brain dead before it could tell the rest of his body that he'd jacked himself.
- The grammar here is incorrect.
- Say eg His brain was dead before .
- .
- eg His brain died before .
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His brain dead before it could tell the rest of his body that he'd jacked himself.
The grammar here is incorrect. Say
eg His brain was dead before . . .
eg His brain died before . . .
jacked I don't know what this means. My guess is that it is some kind of ephemeral urban slang. My advice to learners of English is to avoid such terms. They change v
0It's slang, so the meaning is nebulous at best. The OED has made a heroic attempt to codify the usage, but it has since slipped from their grasp like an slippery eel, and I don't see this precise use there, or indeed in any dictionary I looked at.
"Jacked" here can be thought of as short for "jacked up". That phrase has had many various uses in slang over the centuries and around the glo
0Hi,
Thank you for your advise. I myself found that there might be an grammatical error, but the text is literally and word by word cited from the book Memory Man by David Baldacci.
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