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to take control of (a vehicle) by force
- some loser tried to hijack the plane with a toy gun
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“Hijack.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hijack. Accessed 12 December 2019.
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The first known use of hijack was in 1923
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