What's the difference between highjacker and highwayman?

Highjacker


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Highwayman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Liverpool have finally decided that giving £32.5m to Aston Villa for Christian Benteke is the equivalent of jumping out of the carriage into the roadside bushes and meekly handing their wares to the hiding highwayman.
  • (2) In particular, seeking an injunction before you offer FRAND licensing terms is the highwayman's method and breaches the standards agreement.
  • (3) The 210 bus winds up the hill to Hampstead Heath in north London , passing Harry Styles’s house on one side, a 17th-century highwayman’s inn on the other, under the overhanging branches of the ancient oaks and sycamores.
  • (4) Like Adam Ant’s dandy highwayman , he’d have been in his element in the 17th century.

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