Highjack

Definitions: Highjack

Highjack

Noun

1. Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination.

Verb

1. Take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami".

Synonyms: Highjack

Synonyms: commandeer (v), expropriate (v), hijack (v), pirate (v). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Highjack

"Highjack" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Highjack" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Highjack

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
highjack this	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Highjack

Language		Translations for "highjack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, halfway house, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ハイジャック (hijack). (various references)

Pig Latin		ighjackhay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Highjack

Derivations
	Words beginning with "highjack": highjacked, highjacking, highjacks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Highjack

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-j-k"
	-2 letters: hijack.
	-4 letters: chia, hack, haik, haji, hick, high, jack.
	-5 letters: chi, cig, ghi, hag, hah, haj, hic, ich, ick, jag, jig, khi.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-h-i-j-k"
	+1 letter: highjacks.
	+2 letters: highjacked.
	+3 letters: highjacking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.