highjack








verb (used with or without object), noun

  1. hijack.

verb (used with object)

  1. to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
  2. to rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the city.
  3. to seize (a vehicle) by force or threat of force.
  4. to skyjack.

verb (used without object)

  1. to engage in such stealing or seizing.

noun

  1. an act or instance or hijacking.

verb, noun

  1. a less common spelling of hijack

verb

  1. (tr) to seize, divert, or appropriate (a vehicle or the goods it carries) while in transitto hijack an aircraft
  2. to rob (a person or vehicle) by forceto hijack a traveller
  3. (esp in the US during Prohibition) to rob (a bootlegger or smuggler) of his illicit goods or to steal (illicit goods) in transit

noun

  1. the act or an instance of hijacking
v.

1922, American English, perhaps from high(way) + jacker “one who holds up.” Originally “to rob (a bootlegger, smuggler, etc.) in transit;” sense of “seizing an aircraft in flight” is 1968 (also in 1961 variant skyjack), extended 1970s to any form of public transportation. Related: Hijacked; hijacking.

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