HIJACK: значение слова

also highjack transitive verb
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1923


1. to steal by stopping a vehicle on the highway, to commandeer (a flying airplane) especially by coercing the pilot at gunpoint, to stop and steal from (a vehicle in transit), kidnap ,

2. to steal or rob as if by hijacking, to subject to extortion or swindling, hijack noun hijacker noun