2007-01-20 20:14:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Because it doesn't have any relation with Kids, kidnap means to 'take hostage'
2007-01-20 20:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
kidnapper, kidnaper n. be conscious historic previous: properly adequate, kidnapper looks to have originated between people who perpetrate this crime. all of us understand this using fact youngster and napper, the two areas of the compound, have been slang of the variety that criminals used. youngster, which nevertheless has an casual air, replaced into seen low slang while kidnapper replaced into formed, and napper is out of date slang for a thief, coming from the verb nap, "to thieve." Nap is probable a variation of nab, which additionally nevertheless has a slangy ring. In 1678, the 365 days wherein the be conscious is first recorded, kidnappers plied their commerce to shield workers for plantations in colonies such using fact those in North usa. The term later took on the wider experience that it has today. The verb kidnap is recorded later (1682) than the noun and so is probable a back-formation, it relatively is, human beings could have assumed that a kidnapper kidnaps.
2016-10-31 21:45:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he starts behaving like a child- crying, kicking, etc. as soon as he is 'adultnapped'.
2007-01-20 20:18:18 · answer #3 · answered by AAK 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kid, which still has an informal air, was considered low slang when kidnapper was formed, and napper is obsolete slang for a thief, coming from the verb nap, "to steal."
2007-01-20 20:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've noticed the same thing. When it's a vehicle that's broken into, the cops say that the offender "Unlawfully interfered with a vehicle". But I ask this... was the vehicle consenting to being interfered with? ;-))
2007-01-20 20:19:21 · answer #5 · answered by Tabby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is still called kidnapped dont you ever watch cops, worlds wildest police videos or the force
2007-01-20 20:17:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting... on the other hand, why do men have hernias and women have hysterectomies?
Shouldn't men have HISnias and women have HERterectomies?
Things that make ya go HMMM......
2007-01-20 22:32:44 · answer #7 · answered by south_texas_herper 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adult or not, they are still lured into a strangers car with candy.
2007-01-20 20:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by stan w 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because he can care by himself
2007-01-20 20:16:35 · answer #9 · answered by klint mane 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's called an abduction
2007-01-20 20:17:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋