- bandit
- n1. brigand, highwayman, footpad, road agent, Sl. yegg or yeggman, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, desperado, picaroon; outlaw, gangster, public enemy, criminal, mafioso, mobster, racketeer; thug, ruffian, rogue, tough, Inf. toughie, mugger, Inf. plugugly, rowdy, hoodlum.2. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cater-an; rustler, hijacker, skyjacker, air or sky pirate; smuggler, contrabandist, runner, bootlegger; swindler, confidence man, con man, con artist; fleecer, trickster, bilker, sharper, Inf. hawk, blackleg.3. pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, depredator; ransacker, sacker, looter, vandal, rifler, forager, raider.4. robber, burglar, thief, stealer, purloiner, 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.5. petty thief, Sl. ripoff, pilferer, filcher, shoplifter, Sl. ganef; pickpocket, cutpurse, purse-snatcher, Sl. dip.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.