skyjack
IPA: skˈaɪdʒæk
noun
- Synonym of scissor lift
verb
- To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers and/or crew members.
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Examples of "skyjack" in Sentences
- In some cases the name Skyfall is used as a substitute for Skyjack.
- In the 1960s, as terrorists began seizing control of airliners, the verb skyjack was coined, but it has since fallen into disuse.
- We now realized how porous our security is, how easy it is to get on an airplane with a weapon that can be used to skyjack a plane.
- Therefore, Airtight has enabled the player to skyjack the jets by landing on their wings and then performing a quick-time sequence.
- The bigger potential is that a person could "skyjack" a new AP by getting the AP to connect to a controller that is outside of the enterprise.
- Quadra-Lift can drop the car 1.6 inches below standard height for passenger entry, or it can skyjack the Grand Cherokee to over eleven inches of ground clearance.