English > highjack: 2 senses > verb 1, contactMeaning | Take arbitrarily or by force. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
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Synonyms | commandeer, hijack, pirate |
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Category | crime, criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law |
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Narrower | carjack | Take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it |
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skyjack | subject an aircraft to air piracy |
Broader | seize | Take or capture by force |
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Spanish | expropiar, incautar, piratear, requisar |
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Catalan | expropiar, incautar, piratejar, robar |
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Nouns | highjack | seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination |
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highjacker | a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it |
highjacker | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination |
highjacking | robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force |