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  • noun Plural form of highjack.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of highjack.

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Examples

  • Regardless, by blog is public, and always has been, and Xanga or Xenga or whoever already highjacks and reposts all my entries ... so privacy isn't much of an issue.

    "Our blood is gold; nothing to fear." greygirlbeast 2010

  • He tells you how to set the table and corrects your perceptions, takes exception to your comments, highjacks the conversation every time you introduce a topic that doesn't start with "I, Bluster-fuck, am not bragging, but let me tell you about ..."

    Bluster-fuck 2010

  • So, in these (finally) waning days of the campaign to win the country back from 8 years of right-wing hijinks and highjacks, it might be time to ask not what the country will do for Hillary but to ask Hillary what she will do for her country.

    Steven Weber: Enter The Comeback Kid 2008

  • The problem is, Israel is universally detested, highjacks other nations' passports and murders wherever.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2011

  • While some viruses cozy up to membranes that already exist inside living cells, HCV highjacks bits and pieces of membranes and assembles them into large clusters of tiny nested bubbles, or vesicles.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Most topics he starts or highjacks grow to 50+ post about nothing to contribute to revit.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • Most topics he starts or highjacks grow to 50+ post about nothing to contribute to revit.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • By limiting the terms of leaders, we can help ensure that a small coterie of insiders no longer highjacks the legislative process at their whim or to advance personal causes.

    News 2010

  • PinchFace straight-up highjacks AAdrianna's fetus (!) vis-à-vis a legal contract that decrees AAdrianna will disappear to New Mexico, hand the baby

    Television Without Pity 2009

  • Andy Beal in a post titled “Exclusive – Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?” warns that accepting the update to Yahoo Messenger downloads IE7 and highjacks many of your browser’s preferences.

    Google Releases Confidential User Information 2007

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