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Hijack: Created by Jim Field Smith, George Kay. With Idris Elba, Neil Maskell, Max Beesley, Ben Miles. A plane from Dubai to London is hijacked over a 7-hour flight, while authorities on the ground scramble for answers.
The meaning of HIJACK is to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle. How to use hijack in a sentence.
to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle during a journey, especially using violence: Two men hijacked a jet travelling to Paris and demanded $125,000. disapproving. to take control of or use something that does not belong to you for your own advantage: He resents the way his ideas have been hijacked by others in the department.
hijack something to use violence or threats to take control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to force it to travel to a different place or to demand something from a government. The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome.
Hijack definition: to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop. See examples of HIJACK used in a sentence.
HIJACK meaning: 1 : to stop and steal (a moving vehicle); 2 : to steal (something) from a moving vehicle that you have stopped.
1. to steal (goods in transit, a truck and its contents, etc.) by force. 2. to steal such goods from (a person) by force. 3. to cheat, swindle, etc. by or as by the use of force. 4. to seize control forcibly of (an aircraft, bus, ship, etc.), esp. in order to go to a nonscheduled destination.
Hijack definition: To seize control of (a vehicle such as an airplane or bus) by use of force, especially as a way of reaching an alternate destination or as an act of terrorism.
To hijack a vehicle is to take it over illegally. Such a crime is called a hijack or a hijacking. Hijack can be used more generally to mean “take over.” If your friend has a bad habit of interrupting other people to talk about himself, you can say that he tends to hijack the conversation.
Airplane hijackings have occurred since the early days of flight. These can be classified in the following eras: 1929–1957, 1958–1979, 1980–2000 and 2001–present. Early incidents involved light planes, but this later involved passenger aircraft as commercial aviation became widespread.