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Boosting Cars 

To Steal or Jack a car that is not yours.

The stolen cars are usually muscle cars, import and domestic street cars, donks and cars of luxury or high trade in value. This practice is very common in cities with many "Chop Shops" such as: Oakland, Detroit, St. Louis, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

The phrase was made known by the movie "Fast and the Furious" (2001) when Dominic (Vin Diesel) finds out Brian (Paul Walker) was incarcerated for "Boosting Cars".
Dom: Boost cars?
Brian: No, never.
Dom: Do time?
Brian: Couple of overnighters. No big deal.
Dom: What about those two years you did in juvie for boosting cars? Tucson, right? I had Jesse run a little background check on you, Mr. Brian Earl Spilner.
Boosting Cars by Axle Foley January 20, 2011
Related Words

Brake Boosting 

When in a race (normally from a roll) The operator of a "boosted" (turbocharged) car does a tricky maneuver involving applying brakes then adding in throttle to add more brake smoothly to eventually cause the engine to load up spooling the turbine creating boost/power while maintaining a constant rpm/speed so that when the driver lets off the brakes the car takes off like a bullet.
The car on the left brake boosted on that race.... didn't you hear the turbo spooling before they went?

Brake boosting
Brake Boosting by Tw34kd November 20, 2009

coal boasting 

When a white woman brags to her friends about sleeping with dark skinned black men.
I overheard Donna coal boasting to Kelly about her hookup with the son of the Djibouti Ambassador.
coal boasting by zcl July 28, 2006

Boosting 

To steal retail items and resell them on the black market.
Women/Men selling knockoff purses in the street are boosting.
Boosting by Goe September 13, 2015

nuke boosting 

this happens in modern warfare 2, when 2 or more nerds join a lobby and use tac inserts and take turns killing eachother till one of them gets a nuke. used most commonly in freeforall. the trick to get rid of it is to go find where they are hiding (easy to tell because tac insert is loud) and rpg the shit out of those cheaters!
nerd1:hey guyz! lets go nuke boosting!
nerd2:ya!!!
*joins lobby*
nerd1:21-22-23-24 kills! 1 more!
*KABOOM RPG*
nerds:nooo!!!!
nuke boosting by ShinyNewArmor January 30, 2010

dougall boosting

Dougall boosting is the practice of exaggerating all situations, likely to distort the truth to make the situation sound more epic/funny/scary/sad.
He basically ran a mile to save the kids in Africa. Man, he just walked across the hall to hand in his pledge form. Stop dougall boosting.