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hijack English

Meaning hijack meaning

What does hijack mean?
Definitions in simple English

hijack Verb

— If you hijack a vehicle, you force it to stop so you can seize control of it in order to reach a destination.

hijack

— verb (= commandeer) take arbitrarily or by force The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami — verb seize control of they hijacked the judicial process — noun seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination

Synonyms hijack synonyms

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hijack English » English

highjack kidnap pirate abduct capture usurp take over commandeer skyjacking skyjack rob occupy wrest usurpation takeover take hold take swoop snatch snap shake down seize ravish plunder piracy overrun loot hostage taking hold up hijacking hijacker highjacking grab get hold of gaining control exact despoil blackmail assumption abduction

Topics hijack topics

What do people use hijack to talk about?
Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Steal

Conjugation hijack conjugation

How do you conjugate hijack?

hijack · verb

Examples hijack examples

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Movie subtitles

Hijack another boat?
Mind if I hijack the lady?
A hijack with a submarine? Mm-hmm.
You want to hijack it?
I think he's gonna hijack that car to Cuba!
I see, and you'd like me to hijack it?
Why would anybody hijack a goddamn subway train?
Go out and hijack some!
If these ETs are trying to hijack our planet by turning us into them, why in the hell pick a guy in a loony bin?
We can hijack a Cylon transport, run to a sun system.
Hi, I'm Tegan. Did they hijack you, too?
Terrorism, hijack, hostages.
From the Dearborn hijack.
Hijack it when it arrives at the riverbed.
You can't hijack an armored truck.
They don't hijack armored trucks, Steve.
Dubois, are you trying to hijack my star?
Hijack?
You mean hijack it?
So five of us go down there, hijack that stage, re-route them tarts up here instead.
If you mean hijack it, no.
If you could hijack a 707, you could start your own airline.
When did Darcy hijack the bullion, Jim?
Now the fleet muscles in at this spot, we hijack their ammunition the RAF spits on Berlin and we catch them with their panzers down.
If you don't quit munching that sandwich and throw your brain into high gear those guys are gonna hijack the Statue of Liberty.
She's all set to hijack the poor bloke.
If, for example, you asked me to hijack a plane and kidnap the president of Guatemala and then drop him off on the roof of this building, I'd be all for it but I don't like violence!
Palestinians hijack planes God didn't give them!
We'll wait till the Kairopan's harvested. and then we'll hijack the space transporters.
Do you want me to help you hijack my own ship?
Did they hijack you, too?
I must have passed out during the hijack.
The Doctor's theory is that this is a hijack in time rather than space.

News and current affairs

Extremists who hijack religion threaten governments and people everywhere.
Pulling away from dictators without trying to take credit for or hijack the revolt was exactly what was required.
Rather than allow extremists to continue to hijack economic-policy debates, policymakers must work to bridge competing schools of thought.
Radicals used to learn to handle a Kalashnikov and hijack planes with the Palestinians.
Now they learn to handle a Kalashnikov and hijack planes with Al Qaeda.
But we should not be blind to what can happen when political demagogues hijack the anticorruption card.
Will this knowledge hijack emotion, love, music, poetry, art?
There is thus concern that some in Cambodia's government - which includes officials who once served under the Khmer Rouge - will seek to hijack the trials for political ends.
In domestic democratic politics, if the decision-making process is visible to all, it becomes difficult for any group to hijack the agenda.
What if elements of the old regime, or the cadres of militant minorities, only pretend to embrace democratic norms in order to hijack the new democracy?
Yanukovych's naked attempt to hijack the election that precipitated the Orange Revolution should have caused him to be banned from running in future elections.
This may help explain why T3 in Beijing is such a success, and why Chinese are now more united than ever before in condemning attempts to hijack or sully the Olympics for ulterior motives.
For one thing, the lower the political system's transparency, representativeness, and accountability, the more likely it is that special interests will hijack the rules.
So, as Putinism atrophies, the great hope among his immediate circle is that they will be able to do what the communist elite did in the early 1990's - hijack whatever new system emerges and put it to work in the service of their own interests.
If it did - and if it met those demands - Islamists would not be able to hijack the demonstrations.

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