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What does the word pirate mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To subject to or practise piracy.

Part of speech: noun

A robber on the high seas; a vessel engaged in piracy.

Part of speech: noun

One who appropriates without right the literary work of another.

Part of speech: adverb

Piratically.

Usage examples for pirate

Their coasts, deemed impregnable, were again invaded by the man whom they called, in the blindness of their rage, pirate and renegade. – Paul Jones by Hutchins Hapgood
After all, Eric, you've got to remember that a pirate was successful because of his own personality. – The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
How could he be a pirate who could not help himself? – The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms

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