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What (who) is hijack - definition
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Hijack (album); Hijack (band); Hijack (disambiguation); Hijack!
hijack
(hijacks, hijacking, hijacked)
1.
If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another.
Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
The hijacked plane exploded in a ball of fire.
VERB: V n, V-ed
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Hijack is also a noun.
Every minute during the hijack seemed like a week.
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• hijacking (hijackings)
Car hijackings are running at a rate of nearly 50 a day.
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2.
If you say that someone has hijacked something, you disapprove of the way in which they have taken control of it when they had no right to do so.
A peaceful demonstration had been hijacked by anarchists intent on causing trouble.
VERB: V n [disapproval]
hijack
¦ verb illegally seize control of (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) while in transit.
¦ noun an instance of hijacking.
Derivatives
hijacker noun
Origin
1920s (orig. US): of unknown origin.
Hijack (group)
HIP HOP GROUP FROM BRIXTON, LONDON
Hijack (hip hop group)
Hijack were a British hip hop group, hailing from Brixton, London, featuring Kamanchi Sly, DJ Supreme, DJ Undercover, Ulysses, Agent Fritz and Agent Clueso. Their first single, "Style Wars" (Music of Life, 1988) caught the attention of the British hip hop community.
Examples of use of hijack
1. Their actions are hiraba (war against society). They may hijack airplanes but they cannot hijack the message of Islam.
2. Why should unilateralism hijack religion as well?
3. Sometimes men wearing police uniforms hijack cars.
4. Actually, before they hijack of our soldiers, Mr.
5. Airbus in hijack alert Passengers were caught in a mid–air drama when a Virgin Atlantic Airways plane transmitted a false hijack alert.