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What (who) is hijack$35216$ - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Hijack (album); Hijack (band); Hijack (disambiguation); Hijack!
1973 Nepal plane hijack
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PLANE HIJACKING IN NEPAL
Biratnagar Plane Hijack; 1973 Nepal hijacking
The 1973 Nepal plane hijack (also known as the Biratnagar Plane Hijack) was the first plane hijacking in the history of Nepal. Girija Prasad Koirala planned the hijack to steal money that the Nepal Rastra Bank was having transported from Biratnagar to Kathmandu.
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.
