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  • 91pirate — 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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  • 92privateer — n 1. armed ship, pirate ship, pirate, sea rover, corsair. 2.(all hired or mercenary) pirate, viking, corsair, buccaneer, freebooter, rapparee; raider, plunderer, marauder, depredator, vandal, looter, rifler. v 3. buccaneer, freeboot, pirate,… …

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  • 93raider — 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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  • 94robber — 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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  • 95ruffian — 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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  • 96terrorist — 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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  • 97rifle — I ri•fle [[t]ˈraɪ fəl[/t]] n. v. fled, fling 1) a shoulder firearm with a rifled bore 2) a rifled cannon 3) rifles, a military unit equipped with rifles 4) to cut spiral grooves within (a gun barrel, pipe, etc.) 5) to propel (a ball) at high… …

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  • 98riffraff — /ˈrɪfræf / (say rifraf) noun 1. the worthless or disreputable element of society; the rabble: the riffraff of the city. 2. worthless or low persons. {Middle English rif and raf every particle, things of small value, from Old French rif et raf,… …

  • 99riffel — rif|fel sb., riflen, rifler, riflerne, i sms. riffel , fx riffelskud …

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  • 100riffler — I. ˈrif(ə)lə(r) noun ( s) Etymology: modification of French rifloir, from Middle French, from rifler to file + oir ory more at rifle : a small file with ends curved to various shapes used for working in depressions (as in die sinking) II …

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