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To kidnap someone is to take them away by force, against the law, and keep them. Often the aim is money: the will only give the person back if a family or a company pays. The word is used in news and in law; it names a serious crime. You can also use kidnap as a noun for that crime. Though actually, even though kid sits inside the word, adults are kidnapped too. The older story is darker and more exact: around 1680, in thieves' talk, kid meant a child and nap meant to grab, close to nab. People stole children and shipped them to work on far-away farms and colonies. Today the verb is about taking any person that way.
From the word’s history
Compound of kid + nap 'to nab'; originally thieves' cant for stealing children to ship to colonies as laborers, c. 1680.
由 kid「小孩」和 nap「抓」合成，原是黑話，指拐走小孩送去殖民地做工。
組成kid（舊時賊話裡的「小孩」）+ nap（抓住，近於 nab）。約 1680 年已見；起初指偷小孩、運去殖民地或農場做工。
同家族的字
- kidthe old thieves' word for a child; the first kidnaps were of children
- nabnap in this word is the old slang for grab, close to nab — not the nap that means sleep
- kidnapperthe person who does this
- kidnappingthe crime; the act
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kidnapverb/ˈkɪdnæp/
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To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
- Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple? Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped! Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!
- Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.
kidnapnoun/ˈkɪdnæp/
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The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.
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