Pirate - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation (syn: buccaneer)
- a ship that is manned by pirates
verb
Extra examples
A software pirate made bootleg copies of the computer program.
He was accused of pirating their invention.
...using pirated software that was subject to copyright...
The computer game was pirated and became infected.
Designers may pirate good ideas.
Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.
Dressed as a pirate, he entered the stage flourishing his sword.
...an abortive attempt to recover the sunken pirate ship...
...every ship on the Spanish Main was terrified of running into the dread pirate...
...the pirate ship was laden with the pillage of merchant ships from across the Spanish Main...
...in pirate tales there's always the raucous tavern and its cadre of buxom queans...
He smote off the pirate's head with a single stroke of his sword.
...the pirate captain cried, “Ahoy, me swabbies, 'tis time to hoist the Jolly Roger!”...
Word forms
I/you/we/they: pirate
he/she/it: pirates
present participle: pirating
past tense: pirated
past participle: pirated
singular: pirate
plural: pirates
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