carjack

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See also: car jack and car-jack

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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.

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