pirate

noun5

1. •
   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.
2. •
   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
3. •
   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
4. •
   A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
5. •
   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

1. •
   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.
2. •
   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
3. •
   To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

   • Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
4. •
   To engage in piracy.

   • He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen.
5. •
   (Philippines) To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

adjective1

1. •
   Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

noun2

1. •
   someone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.
2. •
   someone connected with Bristol Rovers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.