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• n  a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it

• Many a highwayman prided himself on his gallantry, and one of them, James Maclaine, the son of a Presbyterian minister, had such a fetching way with his women victims that when .
• George Lyon may have considered himself a highwayman, but it's said that his only successful holdup was of the Liverpool mail coach, for which he and two accomplices were .
• But Jackson the singer can get bushwhacked by Jackson the persona, who is a ; dangerous highwayman.

• highjacker
• hijacker
• road agent

News & Articles

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• Cumberland Gap: Highway to a new world
  THE HIGHWAYMAN
  June 23, 2013 - Delaware County Daily Times

Quotes

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• Abraham Lincoln in New York Times
  The whole situation brings to mind what Abraham Lincoln said, in his great Cooper Union speech in 1860, about secessionists who blamed the critics of slavery for the looming civil war: "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his...
• Benjamin Franklin in NewsWithViews.com
  Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding fathers, said, "A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
• John Simm in Ham and High Broadway
  John Simm added: "My family and I love Spiazzo and I would personally protest about this with a placard - except I'm in South Africa pretending to be a highwayman for a TV series."