skyjack
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]skyjack (third-person singular simple present skyjacks, present participle skyjacking, simple past and past participle skyjacked)
- To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers and/or crew members.
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Etymology 2
[edit]From the brand name Skyjack, from sky + jack.
Noun
[edit]skyjack (plural skyjacks)
- Synonym of scissor lift
- 2003, Concrete International[1], volume 25:
- Concrete was placed continuously, with an observer in a skyjack above the column communicating with the pump operator to avoid overfilling[...]
- 2007, Don Wallace, One Great Game[2]:
- A skyjack—a thirty-foot-high filming platform that rises on a hydraulic scissors lift—is in place, with a cameraman overseeing the practice.