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LoJack

LoJack proper noun: a stolen-vehicle recovery system that utilizes GPS and cellular technology to locate users' vehicles.

Proper noun

LoJack

  1. A stolen-vehicle recovery system that utilizes GPS and cellular technology to locate users' vehicles.
    • Their task wasn't easy, because just as the prevalence of LoJacks affects auto-theft rates, so auto-theft rates affect the prevalence of LoJacks.2008, Steven E. Landsburg, More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
    • Hey, listen, do me a solid and check out a '89 Chevy Monte Carlo registered to a one Jesse Pinkman. Specifically, I wanna know if the car's got LoJack. It's one of those jack-off low riders, so I'm betting that it's got a good shot that there is. If so, can you go ahead and get me a fix on it?2009 March 15, George Mastras, “Grilled”, in Breaking Bad, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Hank Schrader (Dean Norris)

Origin of LoJack

Originally the trademarked name of a system developed by Spireon, LoJack became a genericized trademark to refer to any such stolen-vehicle recovery system regardless of brand. The name is a play on the word hijack, replacing hi (high) with its antonym lo (low).

Questions about LoJack

What does LoJack mean?
LoJack means a stolen-vehicle recovery system that utilizes GPS and cellular technology to locate users' vehicles.
What part of speech is LoJack?
LoJack is a proper noun.

Words near LoJack in the dictionary

  1. Loiyumba
  2. Loiyumpa
  3. Loja
  4. Loja bark
  5. Loja barks
  6. LoJack
  7. Lojban
  8. Lojbanic
  9. Lojbanist
  10. Lojbanistan
  11. Lojbanists

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