noun. A pirate, especially one of the freebooters who plundered Spanish shipping in the West Indies during the 17th century.

noun. A ruthless speculator or adventurer.

intransitive verb. To plunder shipping; act as a buccaneer.

intransitive verb. To show boldness and enterprise, as in business, often in a reckless or unscrupulous way.

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

noun. 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.

noun. A pirate.

verb. To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships.

verb. live like a buccaneer

noun. someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

""You're what they call a buccaneer of business, aren't you?""