pirate
Meanings
noun
- A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
- An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
- A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
- A kind of marble in children's games.
verb
- To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
- To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
- To engage in piracy.
- To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
adj
- Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
noun
- someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- someone connected with Bristol Rovers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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Etymology
From Middle English pirate, pirat, pyrat, from Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta (“pirate”), from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".
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