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Carjack vs Carrack - What's the difference?

carjack | carrack |

As a verb carjack

is to steal an automobile forcibly from someone.

As a noun carrack is

a large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

carjack

English

Alternative forms

*car-jack

Verb

(en verb)
  • To steal an automobile forcibly from someone.
    • Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!
  • To forcibly steal some vehicle.
    • These twerps have carjacked their last Mercedes.

    Derived terms

    * carjacker * carjacking

    Synonyms

    * hijack

    carrack

    English

    Alternative forms

    * carack * carrick

    Noun

    (wikipedia carrack) (en noun)
  • A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.