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hijack
  1. An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking.
  2. An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.
  3. (politics) An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.
  4. (poker) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A man used a knife to attempt a hijack of an Air Italia flight from Paris to Rome but was restrained by the crew.”
hijacking
  1. The act of one who hijacks; the seizure of vehicles.
  2. The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The gang has also been linked to assaults on two researchers, a hijacking and two attempted hijackings.”
hijacker
  1. Someone who hijacks.
  2. (computing) Hijackware.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The hijacker was skilled at stealing valuable works of art from museums undetected.”
      “He is the world's most prolific television hijacker having disrupted around 20,000 live link-ups, according to the Guinness Book of Records.”
      “It might have been worth it if the climax had been a comedy terrorist dressed as a hijacker jumping onto the stage and punching his lights out.”
hijackware
  1. (computing) Malicious software that commandeers other software, especially a web browser, so as to affect its behaviour.
hijackee
  1. A victim of a hijacking.
hijackings
  1. plural of hijacking
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's not like hijackings, where the terrorists are conveniently there to be mobbed.”
      “The dead man was a known criminal with more than 40 previous convictions, including armed robbery and car hijackings.”
      “Police are also investigating the gang's possible links to three hijackings and another murder, all in Mdantsane.”
hijackees
  1. plural of hijackee
hijackers
  1. plural of hijacker
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  3. Examples:
    1. “ActiveX can also be used to download spyware, hijackers, dialers and ad ware.”
      “The hijackers assumed the controls of the Boeing 757, cruising in the airspace near the capital.”
      “Investigators say that some hijackers have resorted to cloning an entire company by incorporating under a similar name.”
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