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/ˌbəkəˈni(ə)r/,
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buccaneers, plural;
  1. A pirate, originally off the Spanish-American coasts

  2. A daring, adventurous, and sometimes reckless person, esp. in business
    • - a shrewd and buccaneering businessman
  1. live like a buccaneer
  2. pirate: someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
  3. (buccaneering) piracy: hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it; "air piracy"
  4. The buccaneers were pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the Caribbean Sea during the late 17th century.
  5. The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British low-level strike aircraft with nuclear weapon delivery capability serving with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force between 1962 and 1994, including service in the 1991 Gulf War. ...
  6. The Buccaneer was a secondary mascot used by the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club during their 1995 season. ...
  7. Buccaneer was a board game published in Britain by Waddingtons between the 1930s and 1980s.
  8. Buccaneer is the stage name of Jamaican dancehall artist Andrew Bradford (born 1974). He first emerged in 1994 and has released three albums. He later went into production.
  9. Buccaneer is a short-lived television series, made by the BBC in 1980.
  10. The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie Macpherson from the novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon. ...
  11. The Buccaneer is a 1958 film, made by Paramount Pictures like the 1938 version and shot in Technicolor and VistaVision. ...
  12. (Buccaneers (series)) Buccaneers is the title for a collection of 8 children's books first published in 1980, written by Sheila K. McCullagh and illustrated by Derek Collard. ...
  13. (The Buccaneers) The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. ...
  14. 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; A pirate; To engage in piracy against any but one's own nation's ships
  15. (Buccaneers) Home, Road, Alternate - Everyone seems to love the 'Creamsicles' but I think they were uglier than some choose to remember. I did add the creamy orange to the great modern logo (check out the football in the logo) and added it as a secondary color. ...
  16. (Buccaneers) Hunters and survivalists who turned to piracy in the 1600s.
  17. n. What pirates pay for corn these days.
  18. (derived of the Caribbean “boucan”) was originally a hunter of wild animals. He treats the meat by a smoking process called “boucanage” learnt by the Indians Arawak and he trades animal skins. ...
  19. Term used for pirate, after the French word "boucanier," which referred to the way the Arawaks smoked meat.
  20. from the French word boucanier. Boucaniers originally were French hunters in the Caribbean who were poaching cattle and pigs and would smoke the meat on wooden frames called boucans so that it could be saved for a later time. ...
  21. From the French boucan, or grill, for cooking dried meat. Originally referring to those who hunted and smoked meat, it expanded to include those who ate it (or stole it) as well. ...
  22. Pirate, originally based in the Carribean
  23. Coastal pirates, originally operating out of the Caribbean, who attacked French and Spanish shipping lanes. Later came to be a generic reference to any pirate.
  24. general term for pirates, particularly in the West Indies, but originally referring to hunters of wild oxen and pigs on Hispaniola (see Dave Cordingly’s book for more background).
  25. A buccaneer was a pirate from the Caribbean.