freebooting noun 2adjective 1 noun2 •Piracy or plundering.The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities. — 1853 •Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer. — 1994 adjective1 •Engaged in piracy or plunderIn one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America. — 1843
