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buccaneer
Any of a group of seamen who cruised on their own account on the Spanish Main and in the Pacific in the 17th century; similar to pirates but did not prey on ships of their own nation
A pirate
To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships

In 1596 and 1597 he bucaneered against Sao Thomi, the Portuguese slaving settlement off the coast of West Africa, and in the Spanish Main.

{n} a pirate, a free-booter
To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber
If you describe someone as a buccaneer, you mean that they are clever and successful, especially in business, but you do not completely trust them. Any of the British, French, or Dutch sea adventurers who chiefly haunted the Caribbean and the Pacific seaboard of South America during the latter part of the 17th century, preying on Spanish settlements and shipping. Though inspired by such privateers as Englishman Francis Drake, the buccaneers were not legitimate privateers (the commissions they held were seldom valid), but neither were they the outlawed pirates who flourished in the 18th century. Usually escaped servants, former soldiers, or loggers, they ran their ships democratically, divided plunder equitably, and even provided a form of accident insurance. They influenced the founding of the South Sea Co., and stories of their adventures inspired more serious voyages of exploration as well as the tales of writers Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Robert Louis Stevenson
live like a buccaneer
{i} pirate
A robber upon the sea; a pirate; a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries
A buccaneer was a pirate, especially one who attacked and stole from Spanish ships in the 17th and 18th centuries
someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
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