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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 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.