bandit

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However, all the same, a bandit is a bandit, and we shall have a dozen good straight Winchesters to ride with the silver down to Sulaco. "

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  1. noun A robber, especially one who robs at gunpoint.
  2. noun An outlaw; a gangster.
  3. noun One who cheats or exploits others.

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  • I asked She said nothing in a wooden speechless way Short-bandit, the one named Pokey, took it on himself to answer that. —  171 - The Monkey Suit
  • Gonzalez also was identified as the bandit through a photo lineup, surveillance video and a witness description, police said. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
  • Cocking my tinfoil hat I will note that it is entirely possible that someone has been making out like a bandit -- and might even be one (as far as I know almost legally). —  Angry Bear
  • Hereat, the messenger from Ghat, Jabour's slave, of whom the bandit was afraid, and dared not lay a hand upon, interposed, and, assuming an air of defiance, said, "I am come from my Sultan, Jabour; if you kill the Christian, you must kill me first. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • "The court is for the bandit, the military officer for the soldier," he was wont to say; "but I, God be thanked, am neither a bandit nor a soldier." —  A Reckless Character And Other Stories
 

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brigand ·  robber ·  outlaw ·  assassin ·  thief ·  marauder ·  smuggler ·  ruffian ·  rebel ·  adventurer ·  raider ·  barbarian

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bandit:   bandits
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Italian bandito, from bandire, to band together, probably of Germanic origin; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English bandetto, later banditto, bandito, bandite, etc., plural bandetti, banditti, banditi, banditty, and with added English plural banditties, etc.; from Italian bandito (plural banditi), a bandit, past participle of bandire, from Middle Latin bandire, bannire, banish, outlaw: see ban, banish.
 

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/ˈbændɪt/
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