Jack it
verb phrase
To play half-heartedly, claiming an injury; malinger: Piniella’s charge that Henderson was ”jacking it”
[1970s+ Baseball; fr earlier jake, ”a player who loafs or stalls,” apparently based on the name of Jake Stahl, who played and managed various teams between 1903 and 1913, because his surname rhymes with ”stall”]
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