Definitions

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  • noun One who is kidnapped.

Etymologies

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kidnap +‎ -ee

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Examples

  • "Elgin" is fine when it's good (like on the busy, lurching jam "Batteries"), but better when it's bad: "Kidnapped" is a modest banger about a couple who try to role-play their way out of a relationship rut (for Ginuwine, this is an ongoing theme) by playing kidnapper and kidnappee ("I'll dress up like a robber and wear all black/Nobody's gonna find out where I hid you at").

    Album review: Ginuwine's "Elgin" Post 2011

  • We're not exactly friends; I'd say that it's more a kidnapper-kidnappee relationship.

    Anhedonia (excerpt) Laura Preble 2010

  • Todd Wilander (Charles Clayton), Bailey Grey (Adriana, the unfortunate kidnappee) and Phillip Boykin (Inspector Watts) do what they can with their predictable parts.

    Creep Show Heidi Waleson 2011

  • "Elgin" is fine when it's good (like on the busy, lurching jam "Batteries"), but better when it's bad: "Kidnapped" is a modest banger about a couple who try to role-play their way out of a relationship rut (for Ginuwine, this is an ongoing theme) by playing kidnapper and kidnappee ("I'll dress up like a robber and wear all black/Nobody's gonna find out where I hid you at").

    Album review: Ginuwine, "Elgin" Allison Stewart 2011

  • In our exclusive clip below, you can see Winstone introducing himself to his kidnappee in grand fashion, with a flowery explanation of what love means.

    EXCLUSIVE: Ray Winstone Explains Love To A Bloody, Bound Man In This ‘44 Inch Chest’ Clip » MTV Movies Blog 2010

  • It'd be better if the kidnappers / kidnappee were on the move, one step ahead of him instead of just waiting to be found.

    Filmstalker: Taken sequel begins 2009

  • Ashley Johnson makes a wonderful kidnappee, knowing how much of a nutjob Otis is and what to say to appease him.

    Otis (2008) 2008

  • Editorials are already referring to him as a "political kidnappee."

    Where Was Gutierrez? 2008

  • I keep telling myself this, but Mr. Chairman says that it is a kidnapping, that it has to be a kidnapping, and that there is only one way to handle a kidnapping on Venus if one ever expects to see the kidnappee alive again.

    Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963

  • Even if that vicious killer happens to have a kidnappee with him.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

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