Pirate synonyms

pī'rĭt

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raider
(Business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
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sea dog
An experienced sailor
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corsair
A privateer, esp. of Barbary
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smuggler (related)
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buccaneer
A ruthless speculator or adventurer.
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viking
A Scandinavian.
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sea-wolf
Alternative spelling of seawolf.
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renegade (related)
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soldier of fortune
One who will serve in any army or undertake risky tasks for personal gain or love of adventure.
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filibuster
The making of long speeches, introduction of irrelevant issues, etc. in order to obstruct the passage of a bill in the Senate
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bootlegger (related)
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marauder
Someone who moves about in roving fashion looking for plunder.
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Barbary pirate
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criminal (related)
Constituting, implying, or involving a crime or an element of a crime.
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piratical
Of, pertaining to, or similar to pirates
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steal
Something stolen
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crib
(Intransitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
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pirate-ship
Any ship manned by pirates.
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hijack
To forcibly stop and seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
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slaver (related)
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jolly-roger (related)
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sea-robber
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
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plagiarist
One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
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plagiarizer
A person who plagiarizes
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plagiariser
Alternative spelling of plagiarizer.
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literary-pirate
someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
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highjack
The definition of highjack is to steal by force.
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blackbeard (related)
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pirates (related)
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Joasmee (related)
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commandeer
To force into military service.
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thief
The definition of a thief is a person who takes something without permission or without the owner knowing.
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pillager
A person who pillages
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privateer
An officer or any other member of the crew of such a ship.
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ranger
(--- Chiefly British) The keeper of a royal forest or park.
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robber (related)
A person who robs.
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cribber
A horse that has the habit of cribbing (seizing a solid object with the teeth and drawing in wind).
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sea-rover
A pirate or a pirate ship
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give (related)
A tendency to be springy; resilience
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words (related)
One who illicitly reproduces the artistic work, for example, of another
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plunderer
One who plunders or pillages.
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freebooter
A plunderer; specif., a pirate
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Pirate Sentence Examples

  • It was off this island that John Gow, the pirate, was taken in 1725.

  • The great pirate city was not in fact thoroughly tamed till its conquest by France in 1830.

  • The sword dance described in the Pirate may still be seen occasionally.

  • Readers of Scott's Pirate will remember the frank contempt which Magnus Troil expressed for the Scots, and his opinions probably accurately reflected the general Norse feeling on the subject.

  • The word appears in French as pirate for a liquid measure as early as the 13th century.

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