Dacoit

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  • noun. A member of a robber band or gang in South Asia.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. etc. See dakoit, etc.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of a class of robbers, in India and Burma (Myanmar), who act in gangs and are usually armed.
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  • noun. A member of an armed gang of bandits in India, Pakistan, and the surrounding region.
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  • noun. a member of an armed gang of robbers
    • Word Usage
    "Lala Ram belonged to an upper, landowning caste, and within dacoit gangs, too, everything turned on caste."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stealer  thief  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    banditry  cross-stitching  hell-raising  hellion  juggernaut  
    variant
    dakoit  
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