单词 | -jacker |
释义 | -jackercomb. form colloquial. Forming agent nouns (sometimes ad hoc formations) corresponding to nouns and verbs formed with -jack comb. form. ΚΠ 1976 H. Kohn & C. Norton in Rolling Stone Jan. 36/2 Other yachtjackers had duped their targets into traps at sea, issuing false distress signals, then commandeering the chivalrous vessels coming to their rescue. 1976 Audubon May 140/2 Wild West-style rustling is back in vogue... The new breed of rustlers are honeybee hive-jackers. 1995 PC Mag. 7 Nov. 31/1 The Clinton administration issued electronic copyright proposals to protect authors and publishers from ‘cyberjackers’. 2003 Amer. Speech 78 98 Juice-jacker.., Person stealing electrical power. 2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Oct. i. 18/1 The costliest current case of crop larceny in a state where avocado bandits, cattle rustlers and even hay-jackers are regularly on the loose. 2007 J. F. Warren in P. Boomgaard World of Water ii. 137 The late-twentieth-century pirates of Southeast Asia, be they Thai fishers, Vietnamese pirates, Indonesian shipjackers or Sulu ‘terrorists’ are all products of new post-colonial relationships. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1976 |
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