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car-jack

car-jack is the alternative spelling of carjack.

Meaning of carjack

Verb

carjack (third-person singular simple present carjacks, present participle carjacking, simple past and past participle carjacked)

  1. (transitive) To steal an automobile forcibly from (someone).
    • Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!
  2. (transitive) To forcibly steal (a vehicle).
    • These twerps have carjacked their last Mercedes.

Forms of car-jack

third-person singular presentcar-jacks
present participlecar-jacking
past participlecar-jacked
pastcar-jacked

Questions about car-jack

What is car-jack the alternative spelling of?
Car-jack is the alternative spelling of carjack.

Words near car-jack in the dictionary

  1. car-handed
  2. car-hop
  3. car-hops
  4. car-house
  5. car-houses
  6. car-jack
  7. car-jacked
  8. car-jacking
  9. car-jackings
  10. car-jacks
  11. car-lifting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: car-jack (page history and authors); carjack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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