Definition of "buccaneers" [buccaneers]

• Plural form of buccaneer. (noun)

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• "By the outlanders we are cursed and feared, are termed buccaneers, pirates, freebooters."
• "Have you never heard any fearful stories about Thomas Hutter's having once been concerned with the people they call buccaneers? ""
• "In process of time the name was applied to the sea robbers as well as to the hunters; and when piracy became the general profession as a substitute for planting and the chase, all were called buccaneers indiscriminately."