outlaw

n

1. fugitive, escapee, runaway, deserter, Sl. AWOL, Sl. lamster, Archaic. runagate; renegade, undesirable, Latin, persona non grata; reprobate; exile, outcast, social outcast, outcast of society, pariah, man without a country, expellee; convict, Inf. jailbird; known offender, wanted criminal, wanted man, desperate criminal, cutthroat, mad dog, desperado, public enemy.

2. bandit, brigand, highwayman. Zorro, Scarlet Pimpernel, footpad, road agent, Sl. yegg or yeggman, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Sl. bandito, Robin Hood, Australian. bushranger, picaroon; gangster, criminal, mafioso, mobster, racketeer; thug, ruffian, rogue, tough, Inf. toughie, Inf. hired gun, Inf. plugugly, hoodlum.

3. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer, freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran; rustler, hijacker, skyjacker, air or sky pirate, terrorist, Fenian; smuggler, contrabandist, runner, bootlegger.

4. pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, ransacker, sacker, looter, vandal, rifler, raider.

5. robber, felon, thief, Inf. crook, Inf. hold-up man, Sl. stick-up man, armed robber; safecracker, Jimmy Valentine; housebreaker, Sl. cracksman, Brit. picklock, Raffles, sneak thief, cat burglar, Inf. second-story man.

v

6. disallow, rule out, bar, exclude, shut out, shut the door on; ban, proscribe, prohibit, forbid, interdict, issue an injunction against, lay under interdiction, put under ban, taboo, embargo, boycott; repress, suppress, smother; limit, disallow, keep under, keep within bounds, hold back, check; withhold, stop, preclude, circumscribe, deny; segregate, cordon, cordon off, cut out, cut off, strike out or off, eradicate, purge, not allow; isolate, quarantine, set or keep apart, put beyond the pale.

7. ostracize, banish, expel, cast out, blackball, blacklist, repudiate, exile, deport, transport, send away, Brit. rusticate, Inf. ship out of town, Inf. run out of town; put a price on [s.o.'s] head, put on the wanted list.