What is the meaning of BUCCANEER. Phrases containing BUCCANEER
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– Well, of course, it’s an awful affliction that used to bedevil buccaneers in days gone by; that’s one reason there was lime juice added to the rum in the water, making grog. So calling someone a “scurvy bilge rat†is even worse than calling him a “bilge rat.â€
Buccaneer is London Cockney rhyming slang for homosexual (queer).
Name for a 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 (Caribbean Pirates).
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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.
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A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Flibuster.
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To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
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Like a buccaneer; piratical.
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One who plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber.
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A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
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