Hijack

Definitions: Hijack

Hijack

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".

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

Law

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hijack

Long enough for you to get in and hijack those ships. (Space Raiders; writing credit: Howard R. Cohen)

You're trying to hijack my presidency! (24; writing credit: Mark Clompus; Marvin Close)

We're dealing with fundamentaliststhe Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. (Robin Williams: Live on Broadway; writing credit: Robin Williams)

Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

This Is a Hijack (1973)

Hijack (1973)

Fly Hijack (1965)

Hijack (1999)

North Sea Hijack (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Flights of Terror: Aerial Hijack and Sabotage Since 1930 (reference)

• Great Train Hijack (reference)

• Hijack (reference)

• Hijack : 144 lives in the balance : a firsthand report (reference)

• How Can You Hijack a Cave? (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Economic History

Colombia

They also conduct road blockages, hijack commercial cargo, and "tax" materials transported through their areas of influence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "hijack": hijack a plane. Additional references.

Albanian

rrëmbim avioni, rrëmbej (collar, denude, deplume, derogate, despoil, extort, flick out, grab, jump, rape, ravish, reave, reive, whip, whip up, wrest), plaçkit (depredate, despoil, forage, Harry, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, pirate, plunder, Raven, ravish, Rob, sack), pirateri ajrore, ndal në rrugë për ta plaçkitur, i ndryshoj kursin avionit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏خطف (abduct, carry off, gobble, kidnap, kidnapping, lift off, nobble, ravish, seizing, snatching, steal, whip), ‏إختطاف طائرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

отвличане (abduction, abstraction, distraction, kidnapping, rape, ravishment, revulsion, snatch), отвличам (abduct, abstract, call off, carry off, distract, divert, kidnap, reave, snatch away, steal away, take away, turn off), изнудвам (gouge, racketeer, ramp, screw, shark), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Chinese 

劫机 (hijacking). (various references)

Czech

unést letadlo, únos (abduction, hijacking, kidnapping, rape). (various references)

Farsi 

دزدی هواپیماوساءطنقلیه ومسافران . (various references)

Finnish

kaapata (capture, skyjack). (various references)

French

piller, détourner, détournement. (various references)

German

entführen (abduct, carry off, elope with, kidnap, make off with, run off with, skyjack, snatch, to abduct, to kidnap). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω αεροπειρατία, κλέπτω από λαθρεμπόρουσ κατά τη μεταφορά, εκβιάζω (blackmail, exact, extort, shake down), ληστεύω (despoil, hold up, rob). (various references)

Hungarian

megrabol (to hijack, to pirate), eltérít (angle, bias, detour, distract, divert, to avert, to bias, to call off, to deflect, to distract, to divert, to head off, to hijack, to shunt, to sidetrack, to side-track, to turn from), elrabol (rape, Raven, steal, to abduct, to hijack, to kidnap, to rape, to ravish, to rob). (various references)

Indonesian

membegal (rob), membajak pesawat, membajak (pirate, plow). (various references)

Italian

dirottare (change course, deviate, divert, skyjack), depredare durante il trasporto. (various references)

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, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized), 乗っ取り (capture, skyjacking, takeover). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハイジャック (highjack), のっとり (capture, skyjacking, takeover). (various references)

Manx

goaill er egin (appropriation, commandeer, expropriation, ravish). (various references)

Norwegian

kapre. (various references)

Pig Latin

ijackhay

Portuguese

alto rendimento (high yield). (various references)

Russian 

угнать самолет, угнать, ограбить, нападать с целью грабежа. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oteti (abduct, kidnap, prise, prize, ravish, seize, wrest), kidnapovati (hi-jack, kidnap). (various references)

Spanish

secuestrar (abduct, distrain, distrain upon, kidnap, seize, sequester). (various references)

Swedish

kapning (hijacking), kapa (capture, cut off, lop, sever), flygplanskapning. (various references)

Thai

การจี้เครื่องบิน เรือ หรือรถไฟ, จี้เครื่องบิน เรือ หรือรถไฟ. (various references)

Turkish

hırsızlık (burglary, heist, hijacking, larceny, pilferage, rip off, robbery, shoplifting, shop-lifting, steal, theft, thievery), uçak kaçırmak (skyjack), uçak kaçırma (hijacking, skyjack, skyjacking), kaçırmak (abduct, blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk), gaspetmek (disseise, disseize, extort, invade, rape, ravish, seize, seize by force, spoliate, usurp, wrest, wrest from), gasp (disseisin, disseizin, extortion, grab, hijacking, rape, seizure, spoliation, usurpation, wrest), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, nobble, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukranian 

відбирати силоміць, займатися повітряним піратством. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hijack": hijacked, hijacker, hijackers, hijacking, hijackings, hijacks. (additional references)

Words ending with "hijack": antihijack. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hijack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bizjak, Eijck, Hajek, hiback, Hidaka, hijaak, hijacke, hijak, hijas, Hirac, Hiraoka, hoja, Hoxja, Kinjacka. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: chia, hack, haik, haji, hick, jack.

-3 letters: chi, haj, hic, ich, ick, khi.

-4 letters: ah, ai, ha, hi, ka.

+1 letter: hijacks.

+2 letters: highjack, hijacked, hijacker, jackfish.

+3 letters: highjacks, hijackers, hijacking, jacklight.

+4 letters: antihijack, highjacked, hijackings, jackfishes, jacklights, jinricksha.

+5 letters: highjacking, jinrickshas.

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