This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

v. To stop and rob (a vehicle in transit).

v. To steal (goods) from a vehicle in transit.

v. To seize control of (a moving vehicle) by use of force, especially in order to reach an alternate destination.

v. To steal from as if by hijacking.

v. To swindle or subject to extortion.

n. The act or an instance of hijacking.

v. To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).

v. To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.

v. To seize control of a networked computer by means of infecting it with a worm or other malware, thereby turning it into a zombie.

v. To change software settings without a user's knowledge so as to force that user to visit a certain web site (to hijack a browser).

v. To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions.

n. An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle.

n. An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process.

n. An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions.

v. seize control of

v. take arbitrarily or by force

n. seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination

"As e-mail tipster Lee Boggs wrote NewsBusters, "Although the word 'hijack' doesn't appear in the story, the headline writers must have felt it necessary to give it a negative slant on their homepage link, so they used the word hijack, which is normally reserved for terrorists and thugs who steal planes and cars.""

hijacked    hijacking    hijacks   

usurp    takeover    seize    arrogate    assume   

abduction    sabotage    launder    manslaughter    vandalism    blackmail    assassination    widebody    bombings    embezzlement