BUCCANEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buccaneering mean? 

• BUCCANEERING (noun)
  The noun BUCCANEERING has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BUCCANEERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCCANEERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

buccaneering; piracy

Context example:

air piracy

Hypernyms ("buccaneering" is a kind of...):

highjacking; hijacking (robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force)

 Context examples 

“So,” he added, “if we are not all shot down first they'll be glad to be packing in the schooner. It's always a ship, and they can get to buccaneering again, I suppose.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Micawber, I must observe, in his adaptation of himself to a new state of society, had acquired a bold buccaneering air, not absolutely lawless, but defensive and prompt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)