Antedating of "Hijack" / "Hijacking"

[Dan Goncharoff]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "high-jack


Don't forget the past tense. GB has an example of "hijacked" from 1920:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Vu1YAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA16-PA24&dq=hijacked&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PZwZUcy8KpT60AHUo4CoCg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hijacked&f=false

"NEWSHOUND" IS "HIJACKED" BY AN OIL FIELD JITNEY DRIVER.

Oil and Gas News, Dec 9, 1920, p24
DanG

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