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pirate

/ˈpaɪɹət/

noun 5
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 3

noun5

•
a criminal who travels by boat, attacking ships and towns near the coast to take their goods
- You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
•
An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
- How did you do it? Have you searched for hidden treasure, or discovered a pole, or done time on a pirate, or flown the Channel, or what? Where is the glamour of romance? How did you get it? — 1912
•
One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
- And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies. — 2001
A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
•
A kind of marble in children's games.
- Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers. — 1999

verb5

•
To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo.
•
To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
- If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter. — 1904
•
To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.
- Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
•
To engage in piracy.
- He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
(Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

adjective1

Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

forms

pirated · pirating · pirates