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jack around

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jack someone around and jerk someone around
Sl. to give someone a difficult time; to harass someone. Come on! Stop jacking me around! Max started jerking Lefty around, and it looked as if there was going to be trouble. You jack around everyone you know!
See also: around, jack

jack around and jerk around

sl. to waste time. Stop jacking around and get some work done! The kids spend most of the day jerking around.
See also: around, jack


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But the world was not quite through with horsing Jack around and, in May of 1942, he got drafted into the army; and he spent the rest of World War II undergoing training in northwestern Canada, where he said that all he really did was "learn how to guard pine trees and hose out garbage cans.
To lose somebody like Darryl and then not have Jack around.
A few years ago, Morrissey was chastised for being nationalistic for waving a Union Jack around onstage.
 
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