hijacker

1. 1.

   a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it

   Synonymshighjackerhighwaymanroad agent

   Broaderholdup man

   NarrowerfootpadTurpin
2. 2.

   someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination

   Synonymshighjacker

   Broadercriminal

   airplane

Other forms of hijacker

plural

hijackers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hijacker

What does hijacker mean?

hijacker means "a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hijacker?

hijacker has 3 syllables: hi-jac-ker. The stress falls on "hi". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪˌdʒækɚ/.

What is another word for hijacker?

Close synonyms include highjacker, highwayman, road agent, highjacker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hijacker a common word?

hijacker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.