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culture-jacking

culture-jacking is the present participle and gerund of culture-jack.

Meaning of culture-jack

Verb

culture-jack (third-person singular simple present culture-jacks, present participle culture-jacking, simple past and past participle culture-jacked)

  1. To appropriate aspects of popular culture for commercial purposes.
    • We advise not to culture-jack a natural disaster or some national tragedy.2013 June 14, Michele Cuthbert, “Funny Or Why? 5 Ways Your Brand Can Culture-Jack The Right Way”, in Fast Company

Questions about culture-jacking

What is culture-jacking the present participle and gerund of?
Culture-jacking is the present participle and gerund of culture-jack.

Words near culture-jacking in the dictionary

  1. culture-hero
  2. culture-heroes
  3. culture-historical
  4. culture-jack
  5. culture-jacked
  6. culture-jacking
  7. culture-jacks
  8. culture-vulture
  9. culture-vultures
  10. culturecidal
  11. culturecide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: culture-jacking (page history and authors); culture-jack (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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