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Definitions: Hijacker |
HijackerNoun1. A holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it. 2. Someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HijackerSynonyms: highjacker (n), highwayman (n), road agent (n). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Brazil | The hijacker then killed the hostage. (references) |
Brazil | In a nationally televised bus hijacking in Rio de Janeiro in June 2000, police wounded a hostage while attempting to shoot the hijacker. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Voluntary police officer Eugenio Jose Treminio Ruiz believed that one of the passengers leaving the bus was a hijacker and followed him to the bushes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hijacker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hijacker" is used about 34 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
hijacker | 21 |
browser hijacker | 10 |
hijacker home page | 5 |
hijacker hitches | 5 |
hijacker hitch | 5 |
common hijacker | 3 |
cuba hijacker | 3 |
hijacker hydraulics | 3 |
hijacker winpup32 | 2 |
fifth hijacker hitches wheel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hijacker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrëmbyes avioni, devijues avioni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قرصان الجو (pirate), خاطف طائرة, خاطف (cursory, kidnapper, momentary, pirate, rapid, ravisher, swift), الخاطف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | бандит (bandit, brigand, bush-ranger, bushwhacker, butch, hold-up-man, mosstrooper, rough, tough). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 截机者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | únosce letadla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ravisseur, pirate de l'air, gangster. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entführer (abductor, hijackers, kidnapper, kidnappers, skyjacker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ληστήσ λαθραίων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | géprabló, gépeltérítő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perampok (brigand, marauder, plunderer, robber), pembegal (robber), pembajak (pirate, skyjacker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dirottatore (skyjacker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 하이잭 "인. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | kaprer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ijackerhay бандит (bandit, brigand, gorilla, gunman, killer, killer whale, mobster, mosstrooper, outlaw, ruffian). (various references) secuestrador (abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper). (various references) kapare (caperer, privateer), flygplanskapare. (various references) hava korsanı (air pirate, skyjacker), hırsız (burglar, cracksman, housebreaker, larcener, larcenist, lifter, lurcher, picaroon, pilferer, purloiner, robber, scrounger, shifter, shoplifter, thief, yegg, yeggman), gaspçı (grabber, usurper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hijacker": hijackers. (additional references) | |
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"Hijacker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Heidacker, hijacke, Hiraoka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hijacker" (pronounced hī"ja'ker) |
| 4 | -j a' k er | carjacker. |
| 3 | -a' k er | firecracker, linebacker, nutcracker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-j-k-r" | |
-2 letters: achier, cahier, cakier, hacker, hackie, hejira, hijack, jacker. | |
-3 letters: areic, ceria, chair, chare, chark, chirk, crake, creak, erica, hacek, hiker, icker, reach. | |
-4 letters: ache, acre, arch, cake, care, cark, char, chia, cire, each, hack, haik, hair, haji, hake, hare, hark, hear, heck, heir, hick, hike, hire, jack, jake, jerk, keir, kier, race, rack. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-j-k-r" | |
+1 letter: hijackers. | |
+5 letters: jackhammering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 6A 61 63 6B 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. .--- .- -.-. -.- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01101010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i j a c k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 006A 0061 0063 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4275766769777184 |
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