hijack a plane
1hijack — 01. All airports now have metal detectors to make sure passengers are not carrying weapons which could be used to [hijack] a plane. 02. The school bus was [hijacked] by the father of a young boy in the school, and driven to the border. 03. Police …
2hijack — [[t]ha͟ɪʤæk[/t]] hijacks, hijacking, hijacked 1) VERB If someone hijacks a plane or other vehicle, they illegally take control of it by force while it is travelling from one place to another. [V n] Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from …
3hijack — verb two flight attendants thwarted Girard s attempt to hijack the plane Syn: commandeer, seize, take over, take control; skyjack, carjack; appropriate, expropriate, confiscate, co opt …
4hijack — I UK [ˈhaɪdʒæk] / US [ˈhaɪˌdʒæk] verb [transitive] Word forms hijack : present tense I/you/we/they hijack he/she/it hijacks present participle hijacking past tense hijacked past participle hijacked 1) to illegally take control of a vehicle,… …
5plane — noun 1 ⇨ See also ↑aeroplane, ↑airplane ADJECTIVE ▪ light, small ▪ commercial, passenger ▪ the first generation of passenger planes, like the Boeing 707 …
6hijack — hi|jack1 [ˈhaıdʒæk] v [T] 1.) to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle, or ship →↑carjack ▪ The airliner was hijacked by a group of terrorists. 2.) to take control of something and use it for your own purposes ▪ Some people… …
7hijack — verb Hijack is used with these nouns as the object: ↑aircraft, ↑jet, ↑plane …
8hijack — 1 verb (T) 1 to use violence or threats to take control of a plane, vehicle, or ship 2 to take control of something and use it for your own purposes: Some people think the party has been hijacked by right wing extremists. hijacker noun (C) 2 noun …
9hijack — to take illegal possession of (a vehicle) Standard English and doubtfully euphemistic, despite its interesting etymology. Originally, American Prohibition use, when it became easier to steal liquor from smugglers than to smuggle on your own …
10hijack v — If you step onto a plane and recognize a friend of yours named Jack, don t yell out Hi Jack! …