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Highjacker

Definitions: Highjacker

Highjacker

Noun

1. Someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination.

2. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Highjacker

Synonyms: highwayman (n), hijacker (n), road agent (n). (additional references)

Anagrams: Highjacker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-h-i-j-k-r"
	-2 letters: highjack, hijacker.
	-4 letters: achier, cagier, cahier, cakier, charge, hacker, hackie, hegari, hegira, hejira, higher, hijack, jacker.
	-5 letters: areic, cager, ceria, chair, chare, chark, chirk, cigar, crake, creak, erica, gerah, grace, hacek, heigh, hiker, icker, jager, reach.
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Alternative Orthography: Highjacker

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 69 67 68 6A 61 63 6B 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.... .. --. .... .--- .- -.-. -.- . .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#106 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 006A 0061 0063 006B 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42757374766769777184

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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