Bandit

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  • noun. A robber, especially one who robs at gunpoint.
  • noun. An outlaw; a gangster.
  • noun. One who cheats or exploits others.
  • noun. A hostile aircraft, especially a fighter aircraft.
  • idiom. (make out like a bandit) To be highly successful in a given enterprise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To outlaw; proscribe; banish.
  • noun. An outlaw; one who is proscribed. Hence A lawless or desperate fellow; a brigand; a robber; especially, one of an organized band of lawless marauders.
  • noun. Synonyms Brigand, etc. See robber.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An outlaw; a brigand.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. one who robs others
  • noun. an outlaw
  • noun. one who cheats others
  • noun. An enemy aircraft.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
  • Word Usage
    "But people assume the bandits are illegal as well because of what they are called 'bandits'; but the term bandit was introduced to English via Italian around 1590 in Europe...so the word existed WAY before there was even a Mexico, or United States of America."
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    stealer  thief  
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