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bodyjack

UK/ˈbɒ.di.dʒæk/US/ˈbɑ.di.d͡ʒæk/

bodyjack verb: to forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.

Verb

bodyjack (third-person singular simple present bodyjacks, present participle bodyjacking, simple past and past participle bodyjacked)

  1. To forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.
    • My accent may be Brooklyn, not the BBC, pal, but I still got a brain in my head. We've been bodyjacked. Some kind of mind-switch—yours to our bodies, ours ta yours. No offense but this ain't exactly the first time we've been cut loose in that particular neighborhood.1998 November, Chris Claremont, “The First The Final? Fire!”, in Fantastic Four, volume 3, number 11, page 17
    • This sounds like a spinoff of "The Boys From Brazil"—until about page 70, when D.T. reveals that he's actually a devil who'd bodyjacked an SS officer.2007 January 15, “The Devil Wears Swastikas”, in Newsweek, page 66

Examples of bodyjack in a sentence

  • I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly.2007 April 22, Scott Bennie, “Re: Daleks In Manhattan”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), retrieved 31 Mar 2017, message-ID...
  • Give it back! […] I've been bodyjacked! accused Seymour.2014, Bruce Coville, Aliens Stole My Body, →ISBN, page 24:

Forms of bodyjack

third-person singular presentbodyjacks
present participlebodyjacking
past participlebodyjacked
pastbodyjacked

Origin of bodyjack

Blend of body + hijack.

Questions about bodyjack

What does bodyjack mean?
Bodyjack means to forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.
How do you use bodyjack in a sentence?
I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly.
What part of speech is bodyjack?
Bodyjack is a verb.
How do you pronounce bodyjack?
Bodyjack is pronounced /ˈbɒ.di.dʒæk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of bodyjack?
The past tense of bodyjack is bodyjacked.

Words near bodyjack in the dictionary

  1. bodyhacking
  2. bodyhood
  3. bodying
  4. bodying forth
  5. bodyism
  6. bodyjack
  7. bodyjacked
  8. bodyjacking
  9. bodyjacks
  10. bodykin
  11. bodykins

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