Associations to the word «Kidnapping»

Wiktionary

KIDNAPPING, verb. Present participle of kidnap
KIDNAPPING, noun. (legal) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.

Dictionary definition

KIDNAPPING, noun. (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope