Look up: carjacking

1. Carjacking
   An incident by which a usually armed individual coerces the driver of an automobile to give up his vehicle or drive it and the assailant to some specified location [blend of car and hijacking ]. i.e. 'A carjacking at the corner of Cherry Lane and the Interstate 30 access road has left local residents shocked.' (KXAS Local News, 9-28-96)
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20035
   
   
2. carjacking
   The kind of crime carried out against a person sitting in his or her car Category: Law
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
3. carjacking
   noun the violent theft of an occupied car
   Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
   
   
4. Carjacking
   `Carjacking` is a form of hijacking, where the crime is of stealing a motor vehicle and so also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term date=October 2009-->, typically, the carjacker is armed, a...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carjacking