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  • 61freebooter — n 1. pirate, viking, corsair, buccaneer, rapparee, privateer; highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, bravo, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, brigand, picaroon, desperado, outlaw. 2. pillager, plunderer,… …

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  • 62housebreaker — n burglar, robber, thief; Inf. second story man, Sl. cracksman, Brit. picklock, Raffles; sneak thief, cat burglar, prowler; stealer, purloiner, pilferer, filcher, Inf. crook, Sl. yegg or yeggman; criminal, gangster, felon …

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  • 63malefact — n 1. criminal, felon, larcener, larcenist, misdemeanant, lawbreaker; convict, Sl. jailbird, parolee, exconvict, Inf. ex con, recidivist, repeat offender, Inf. chronic crook; transgressor, trespasser, offender, culprit, miscreant; wrongdoer,… …

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  • 64marauder — n 1. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer, freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran. 2. pillager, plunderer, despoiler; ransacker, sacker, depredator, rifler, looter, forager, raider; ravager, destroyer. 3.… …

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  • 65outlaw — n 1. fugitive, escapee, runaway, deserter, Sl. AWOL, Sl. lamster, Archaic. runagate; renegade, undesirable, Latin, persona non grata; reprobate; exile, outcast, social outcast, outcast of society, pariah, man without a country, expellee; convict …

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  • 66pirate — n 1. sea robber, sea rover, sea dog, sea wolf; Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Long John Silver. 2. viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran; kidnapper, abductor, (usu. of cattle) rustler,… …

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  • 67raider — n 1. pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoil er, depredator; ransacker, sacker, looter, rifler, forager; invader, attacker, assaulter, assailant. 2. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish… …

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  • 68robber — n 1. burglar, thief, stealer, Inf. crook; housebreaker, Sl. cracksman, Brit. picklock, Raffles, sneak thief, cat burglar, Inf. second story man; Inf. hold up man, Sl. stickup man; mugger; safecracker, Jimmy Valentine. 2. petty thief, Sl. ripoff,… …

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  • 69ruffian — n 1. thug, tough, Inf. toughie, mugger, rowdy, Inf. plugugly, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Sl. yap, Inf. goon, hooligan, Chiefly Brit. rough, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, Sl. bad actor, Sl. gunsel, Sl. mug, Australian Sl. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock, (in… …

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  • 70terrorist — n 1. desperado, gunman, gangster, criminal, mafioso, (in Paris) apache; thug, tough, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, roughneck, Inf. baddy, Australian Si. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock. 2. highwayman, footpad, Sl.… …

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