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carjacking

verb

Etymology

Blend of car + hijacking.

  1. derived from jaque
  2. derived from jacke
  3. inherited from jakke
  4. suffixed as jacker — “jack + er”
  5. compounded as hijack — “highway + jacker”
  6. suffixed as hijacking — “hijack + ing”
  7. compounded as carjacking — “car + hijacking”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of carjack

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

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA