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say it: KAHR-jak
carjack is a verb meaning "take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it". It is pronounced /ˈkɑɹˌdʒæk/ — KAHR-jak. It carries one recorded sense.
take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it
“My car was carjacked last night!”
crime
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for carjack come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.