hijack
UK/ˈhaɪ.d͡ʒæk/
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Australia/ˈhɑe.d͡ʒæk/
hijack verb: to forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
Verb
hijack (third-person singular simple present hijacks, present participle hijacking, simple past and past participle hijacked)
- To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.
- hijack the radio show
- Once the polyfill kicks in, it hijacks the user's input cursor and places it into a different field, a problem that does not exist in the native implementation of autofocus.2013, Jon Raasch, JavaScript Programming: Pushing the Limits
- To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.
Noun
hijack (plural hijacks)
- An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
- An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
- I opened my closet door and stared. Should I pack my good suit and black loafers? Uh-uh. Travel light. Think positive. Go there, get done whatever there was to do, and get back. I loved Lolly, but I couldn't let her stroke hijack my life. How many guys would do this much for their aunt?2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.60-61
- An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
- Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
- A highwayman, robber.
- One lone "high-jack" held up 11 harvest hands in a freight car [...] last night, making a clean getaway with slightly over $180.1915 August 26, “Stick-Ups Get Good Hauls From Harvest Hands Near Yankton”, in Pierre Weekly Free Press, Pierre, SD, page 6
hijack meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
hijack in Tamil
- செல்வழி கடத்து, செல்வழி திருடு
hijack in Urdu
- ہائی جیک کرنا
hijack in Bengali
- ছিনতাই করা, জোরপূর্বক দখল করা
hijack in Telugu
- హైజాక్, హైజాక్ చేయడానికి, హైజాక్ చెయ్యడానికి
More languagesFewer languages
- hijack in Malayalam
- തട്ടിയെടുക്കുക, വിമാനം തട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുക, തട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുക, അന്യായമായി തട്ടിയെടുക്കുക
- hijack in Kannada
- ಹೈಜಾಕ್ ಮಾಡಲು
- hijack in Punjabi
- ਹਾਈਜੈਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ, ਹਾਈਜੈੱਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- hijack in Arabic
- خَطَفَ ḵaṭafa, إِخْتِطَاف ʔiḵtiṭāf
- hijack in Malay
- rampas
- hijack in Vietnamese
- cướp máy bay, không tặc
Examples of hijack in a sentence
- The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman.
- Once a code cave is created, you can execute it using either thread injection or thread hijacking.
- He hijacked the Bear Flag revolt, calling himself Oso Numero Uno (Number One Bear).
Forms of hijack
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | hijacks |
| present participle | hijacking |
| past participle | hijacked |
| past | hijacked |
| alternative form | hi-jack |
| alternative form | highjack |
| Noun | |
| plural | hijacks |
Origin of hijack
Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915).
Words formed from hijack
Questions about hijack
- What does hijack mean?
- Hijack means to forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- What is hijack in Tamil?
- Hijack in Tamil is செல்வழி கடத்து, செல்வழி திருடு. See Hijack meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hijack?
- Hijack can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hijack?
- Hijack is pronounced /ˈhaɪ.d͡ʒæk/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of hijack?
- The past tense of hijack is hijacked.
Words near hijack in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hijack (page history and authors); hijack (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hijack (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); Hijack (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hijack (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hijack (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hijack (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hijack (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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