marauder

marauder
n
1. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer, freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran.
2. pillager, plunderer, despoiler; ransacker, sacker, depredator, rifler, looter, forager, raider; ravager, destroyer.
3. kidnapper, abductor, rustler; hijacker, skyjacker, air or sky pirate.
4. robber, burglar, thief, stealer, Inf. crook, housebreaker; highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, brigand, picaroon, outlaw, des- perado.

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