"carnap" meaning in English

See carnap in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: carnaps [present, singular, third-person], carnapping [participle, present], carnaping [US, participle, present, rare], carnapped [participle, past], carnapped [past], carnaped [US, participle, past, rare], carnaped [US, past, rare]
Etymology: From car + -nap, formed in allusion to kidnap based on an erroneous belief that the latter specifically refers to the kidnapping of children. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|car|nap}} car + -nap Head templates: {{en-verb|++,+!<l:rare,<<US>> only>}} carnap (third-person singular simple present carnaps, present participle carnapping or (rare, US only) carnaping, simple past and past participle carnapped or (rare, US only) carnaped)
  1. (Philippines, originally US) To steal a motor vehicle. Tags: Philippines

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "car",
        "3": "nap"
      },
      "expansion": "car + -nap",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From car + -nap, formed in allusion to kidnap based on an erroneous belief that the latter specifically refers to the kidnapping of children.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carnaps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaping",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaped",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaped",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++,+!<l:rare,<<US>> only>"
      },
      "expansion": "carnap (third-person singular simple present carnaps, present participle carnapping or (rare, US only) carnaping, simple past and past participle carnapped or (rare, US only) carnaped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -nap",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Philippine English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal a motor vehicle."
      ],
      "id": "en-carnap-en-verb-BFkbpP8L",
      "links": [
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "motor vehicle",
          "motor vehicle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines, originally US) To steal a motor vehicle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnap"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "car",
        "3": "nap"
      },
      "expansion": "car + -nap",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From car + -nap, formed in allusion to kidnap based on an erroneous belief that the latter specifically refers to the kidnapping of children.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "carnaps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaping",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "present",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnapped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaped",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "carnaped",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "past",
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++,+!<l:rare,<<US>> only>"
      },
      "expansion": "carnap (third-person singular simple present carnaps, present participle carnapping or (rare, US only) carnaping, simple past and past participle carnapped or (rare, US only) carnaped)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -nap",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Philippine English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To steal a motor vehicle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "motor vehicle",
          "motor vehicle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Philippines, originally US) To steal a motor vehicle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Philippines"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "carnap"
}

Download raw JSONL data for carnap meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.