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carjacking

carjacking is the present participle and gerund 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.

Noun

carjacking (countable and uncountable, plural carjackings)

  1. The violent hijacking of a vehicle and sometimes its driver.

Forms of carjacking

Verb
alternative formcar-jacking
alternative formcar jacking
alternative formcarnapping
Noun
pluralcarjackings

Origin of carjacking

Blend of car + hijacking.

Questions about carjacking

What does carjacking mean?
Carjacking means the violent hijacking of a vehicle and sometimes its driver.
What is carjacking the present participle and gerund of?
Carjacking is the present participle and gerund of carjack.
What part of speech is carjacking?
Carjacking is a noun.
What is the plural of carjacking?
The plural of carjacking is carjackings.

Words near carjacking in the dictionary

  1. cariyes
  2. carjack
  3. carjacked
  4. carjacker
  5. carjackers
  6. carjacking
  7. carjackings
  8. carjacks
  9. carjacou
  10. cark
  11. cark it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carjacking (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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