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culturejack

culturejack is the alternative form 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

Forms of culturejack

third-person singular presentculturejacks
present participleculturejacking
past participleculturejacked
pastculturejacked

Origin of culturejack

From culture + jack.

Questions about culturejack

What is culturejack the alternative form of?
Culturejack is the alternative form of culture-jack.

Words near culturejack in the dictionary

  1. cultured meats
  2. cultured stone
  3. culturedly
  4. culturedness
  5. cultureful
  6. culturejack
  7. culturejacked
  8. culturejacking
  9. culturejacks
  10. cultureless
  11. culturelessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: culturejack (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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