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Seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
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hijack
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1922, American English, perhaps from high(way) + jacker "one who holds up." Originally "to rob (a bootlegger, smuggler, etc.) in transit;" sense of "seizing an aircraft in flight" is 1968 (also in 1961 variant skyjack ), extended 1970s to any form of public ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination [syn: highjack ] v. take arbitrarily or by force; "The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami" [syn: commandeer , highjack , pirate ]
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Hijack may refer to:
Usage examples of hijack.
In addition to the CIA, the Pentagon, and the nuclear facility, Tiglao said, Murad confessed that other targets of the airliner hijacking scheme would include the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco, the Sears Tower in Chicago, and - as Ronnie Bucca had suspected - the World Trade Center.
CAPPS screening system, deploying Federal Air Marshals domestically, hardening cockpit doors, alerting air crew to a different kind of hijacking than what they had been trained to expect, or adjusting the training of controllers and managers in the FAA and NORAD.
But Esching had said that there was no hijacking transponder code being sent.
Charlie probably arranged for the move to Northumbria and passed the details on to Andy Pandy, who arranged a hijack, killing the driver, Jonathan Fearn, a local wide-boy recruited by Charlie.
The study is said to have considered the feasibility of hijacking planes and blowing them up in flight, paralleling the Bojinka concept.
Though the plane could have been an old DC-3, some of the Guajiro gangs had hijacked or purchased the latest models of short-range transports.
Crown did not want that silver lifeline jeopardized by armies of picaro swordsmen hijacking the silver trains along trails and highways.
United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania, there had been no mention of its hijacking and the FAA had not yet been added to the tele- conference.
After Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns arrived in Long Beach on one of those hijacked ex-Soviet refugee freighters, they fanned out across southern California looking for expanses of reinforced concrete that were as vast and barren as the ones they had left behind in Kiev.
I had to maneuver the Sirians into hijacking Wess off Mimas without letting them see the implications.
What happened to Lew Page was pretty effective, and it may frighten Newsome into either getting back in line with us, or dropping his idea of hijacking the whole project for himself.
Commission in May 2003, NORAD officials stated that at 9:16, NEADS received hijack notification of United 93 from the FAA.
NORAD officials stated that at 9:24, NEADS received notification of the hijacking of American 77.
According to Brayson, this Adler had already hijacked an oil tanker--the Noramo Pride, American registry.
Max Bhagat had asked for both of them by name, requesting that they join a small group of FBI agents accompanying him to Kazbekistan to observe the negotiation and the actual takedown of the hijacked World Airlines flight.