pirate
pahy ruht
- n someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
- n someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
- n a ship that is manned by pirates
- v copy illegally; of published material
- v take arbitrarily or by force
- The difference, a tour guide informed me on a recent trip to Cartagena, between a pirate and a buccaneer is that latter is officially sanctioned by a state.
- Although the ransom paid to free a Saudi tanker was lost when a pirate boat capsized, piracy remains a growth industry.
- Pirates cruise the waters off the coast of Somalia in 2006 It appears almost certain that the pirates had no idea of the cargo aboard the Belize-flagged Faina, which Ukrainian .