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The meaning of HIJACK is to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle. How to use hijack in a sentence.
noun [ C or U ] uk / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / us / ˈhaɪ.dʒæk / (also hijacking) an occasion when someone uses force to take control of an aircraft or other vehicle: The hijack ended with the release of all the plane's passengers unharmed. He’s a leading suspect in the hijacking of the jetliner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
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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.
verb (used with object) to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey. to rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the city. to seize (a vehicle) by force or threat of force. to skyjack.
hijack. verb. /ˈhaɪdʒæk/. Verb Forms. 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 Miami to San Juan.
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. Definitions of hijack. verb. take arbitrarily or by force. synonyms: commandeer, highjack, pirate. see more.
