Noun
a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
Source: WordNetDemocratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. Margaret Thatcher
Still, what d'you expect of the descendants of a colony that started as a hijacker base? Naturally they developed into an aristocracy. Lois McMaster Bujold
9/11 conspiracy theorists quickly confused him with the hijacker Saeed al-Ghamdi. Source: Internet
Dahl continued to struggle in the cockpit, refusing to allow a hijacker to deactivate the autopilot so he could fly the plane manually. Source: Internet
A browser hijacker is defined as a “form of unwanted software that modifies a web browser’s settings without the user’s permission.” Source: Internet
Incidents and accidents * On 16 November 1990, an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134 flying from Tallinn to Moscow was hijacked during a domestic flight by a hijacker demanded to be taken to Sweden. Source: Internet