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- Dictionaryhijack/ˈhʌɪdʒak/
verb
- 1. unlawfully seize (an aircraft, ship, or vehicle) in transit and force it to go to a different destination or use it for one's own purposes: "a man armed with grenades hijacked the jet yesterday"
noun
- 1. an incident or act of hijacking: "an unsuccessful hijack attempt"
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to force someone to give you control of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship that is in the middle of a trip: Gunmen tried to hijack their truck. Someone who hijacks someone else’s ideas or plans uses those ideas and claims to have created them: The movie hijacks some of its style from "Blade Runner."
The meaning of HIJACK is to steal (goods in transit) by stopping a vehicle. How to use hijack in a sentence.
4 meanings: 1. to seize, divert, or appropriate (a vehicle or the goods it carries) while in transit 2. to rob (a person or.... Click for more definitions.
Hijack definition: to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop. See examples of HIJACK used in a sentence.
the act of taking control of or using something that does not belong to you for your own advantage, or an occasion when this happens: The public won't stand for the hijacking of its public offices by corrupt politicians. I had recently fixed a browser hijacking issue. Fewer examples.
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.
a. To take control of (something) without permission or authorization and use it for one's own purposes: dissidents who hijacked the town council; spammers who hijacked a computer network. b. To steal or appropriate for oneself: hijacked her story and used it in his own book. n. The act or an instance of hijacking.
