freebooter
Americannoun
noun
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a person, such as a pirate, living from plunder
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informal a person, esp an itinerant, who seeks pleasure, wealth, etc, without responsibility
Etymology
Origin of freebooter
1560–70; Anglicization of Dutch vrijbuiter, equivalent to vrij free + buit booty 1 + -er -er 1
Example Sentences
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What the freebooter gains is attention, whether in the form of likes, shares, or new followers for its Facebook page.
From Slate • Jul. 8, 2015
Nehru laconically concluded: "Not a Communist�just a freebooter."
From Time Magazine Archive
A ruthless political freebooter, he played this nationalism for all it was worth�just as he had turned everything else to account in politics, even his enormous red nose.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land.
From Time Magazine Archive
The prosecutor Roy St. Lewis called Hale “the ruthless freebooter of death.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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