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English
Etymology
Blend of body + hijack
Pronunciation
Verb
bodyjack (third-person singular simple present bodyjacks, present participle bodyjacking, simple past and past participle bodyjacked)
- (science fiction) To forcibly seize control of someone's body, sometimes by replacing or exchanging minds.
1998 November, Chris Claremont, “The First The Final? Fire!”, in Fantastic Four, volume 3, number 11, page 17:My accent may be Brooklyn, not the BBC, pal, but I still got a brain in my head. We've been bodyjacked. Some kind of mind-switch—yours to our bodies, ours ta yours. No offense but this ain't exactly the first time we've been cut loose in that particular neighborhood.
2007 January 15, “The Devil Wears Swastikas”, in Newsweek, page 66:This sounds like a spinoff of "The Boys From Brazil"—until about page 70, when D.T. reveals that he's actually a devil who'd bodyjacked an SS officer.
2007 April 22, Scott Bennie, “Re: Daleks In Manhattan”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet), retrieved 2017-03-31, message-ID <[email protected]>:I'm not a big fan, however, of the daleks stealing the Cyberman's bodyjacking schtick, and I thought the hybrid looked embarrassingly silly.
2014, Bruce Coville, Aliens Stole My Body, →ISBN, page 24:Then I did something that astonished both of us: I took control of our body. […] What are you doing? demanded Seymour. Where are you going? This is my body. Give it back! […] I've been bodyjacked! accused Seymour.
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