hijack /ˈhaɪ.d͡ʒæk/noun 5verb 3forms 3 noun5 •An instance of hijacking; the illegal seizure of a vehicle; a hijacking. •An instance of a seizure and redirection of a process. •An amendment which deletes the contents of a bill and inserts entirely new provisions. •(slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer. •(no longer used) A highwayman, robber.One lone "high-jack" held up 11 harvest hands in a freight car [...] last night, making a clean getaway with slightly over $180. — 1915 verb3 •To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat). •To seize control of some process or resource to achieve a purpose other than its originally intended one.Once the polyfill kicks in, it hijacks the user's input cursor and places it into a different field, a problem that does not exist in the native implementation of autofocus. — 2013 •To introduce an amendment deleting the contents of a bill and inserting entirely new provisions. formshijacked · hijacking · hijacks
