skyjack

present singular third person skyjacks · participle present skyjacking · participle past skyjacked · past skyjacked

1. To steal or commandeer (hijack) an airplane, usually by threat of violence to the passengers and/or crew members.

plural skyjacks

1. Synonym of scissor lift.

   Concrete was placed continuously, with an observer in a skyjack above the column communicating with the pump operator to avoid overfilling[...]

   2003, Concrete International, volume 25

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   A skyjack—a thirty-foot-high filming platform that rises on a hydraulic scissors lift—is in place, with a cameraman overseeing the practice.

   2007, Don Wallace, One Great Game

   Synonyms: scissor lift