hijacker
[
hahy
-jak-er]
/ˈhaɪˌdʒæk ər/
noun
1.
a person who
hijacks
.
Also,
highjacker
.
Origin
1885-90,
Americanism;
high(wayman)
+
jacker,
apparently
jack
1
to hunt by night with aid of a jack light +
-er
1
Examples from the web for
hijacker
Such a
hijacker
virus uses cellular machinery to control the process of building proteins and thereby replicates itself.
The link in the above post takes you to a
hijacker
website.
Archie reasoned that no
hijacker
would try something if they knew everyone on the plane was packing heat.
We also would have discovered another
hijacker
who used the same frequent-flyer number.
Eight tourist were killed by the
hijacker
before police commandeered the bus and killed the
hijacker
.