Piratenoun

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  hobbieslifestylesportssomeone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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  ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with any of a number of sports teams known as the Pirates, as a fan, player, coach etc.

piratenoun/ˈpaɪɹət/

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  A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

  • You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates.
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  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?
  • The third day out a pirate (Terebinthian by her rig) overhauled us, but when she saw us well armed she stood off after some shooting of arrows on either part—
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  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.
  • They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.
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  biologynatural-sciencesornithologyA bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

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  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.

pirateverb/ˈpaɪɹət/

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  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.
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  copyrightintellectual-propertylawTo 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.
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  copyrightintellectual-propertylawTo knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

  • Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.
  • In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.
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  To engage in piracy.

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

pirateadj/ˈpaɪɹət/

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