carjack \ ˈkär-ˌjak \ transitive verb
Several weeks after the shooting, a woman my age was carjacked there. — Susan Straight
Recent Examples on the Web
//Investigators are looking into the possibility Blanchard was kidnapped during a carjacking.
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Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, "Aniah Blanchard kidnapping suspect Ibraheem Yazeed captured by U.S. Marshals in Pensacola," 8 Nov. 2019
//During the hearing, Adam Biggs, a lawyer with the Texas Attorney General’s Office, highlighted the case of Brandon Bell, a 17-year-old who had been arrested in Houston last month after being accused of a carjacking.
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Washington Post, "Fate of deal to settle Houston-area bail lawsuit with judge," 28 Oct. 2019
//Two men arrested for a carjacking in September and linked to a homicide that same day now face second-degree murder charges, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
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Grace Toohey, orlandosentinel.com, "Brothers accused of carjacking in Orange County now face murder charges in nearby slaying," 27 Sep. 2019
//Additionally, the city's own crime database has, currently, only two reports of carjackings between December 2016 and present.
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Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit City Council approves $4 million for Real Time Crime Center," 23 July 2019
//That year, the city logged about 1,000 carjackings, the highest number in at least a decade, according to police statistics.
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Alejandro Serrano, chicagotribune.com, "Two given 11 years in federal prison each for carjacking in Goose Island neighborhood," 31 July 2019
//Alexander is charged with carjacking, battery on a person age 65 or older and grand theft of a motor vehicle, Orange County court records show.
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN, "He carjacked an elderly man, deputies say. But they say he couldn't drive a stick shift," 18 July 2019
//Moreno-Berrios is charged with carjacking, malicious damage to property and five traffic violations.
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USA TODAY, "‘Molly of Denali,’ saloon discourse, ashes by mail: News from around our 50 states," 10 July 2019
//Brandon Deonte Washington is facing several charges, including resisting arrest, leaving the scene of a crash, carjacking, grand theft and kidnapping after separate robberies in Orange and Seminole counties within an hour of each other.
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Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, "Sanford cops arrest man suspected of 2 carjackings across 2 counties in 1 hour," 2 July 2019
First Known Use of carjacking
1991, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for carjacking
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