- to steal (cargo) from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop: to hijack a load of whiskey.
- to rob (a vehicle) after forcing it to stop: They hijacked the truck before it entered the city.
- to seize (a vehicle) by force or threat of force.
- to skyjack.
- to engage in such stealing or seizing.
- an act or instance of hijacking.
- to seize, divert, or appropriate (a vehicle or the goods it carries) while in transit
- to rob (a person or vehicle) by force
- (esp in the US during Prohibition) to rob (a bootlegger or smuggler) of his illicit goods or to steal (illicit goods) in transit
- the act or an instance of hijacking
