Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Have you tried "high-jack/ing/er"?

JL

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
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> > hijack, hijacking (OED 1923)
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> > 1918 _Miami District Daily News_ (Miami, Oklahoma) 19 May 4 (America's
> Historical Newspapers)  Mulcting four soldiers of $35 by the Joplin
> authorities might be termed legalized "Hijacking."
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> ...which certainly suggests the illegal kind has already been widely known
> by then
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> LH
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