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What does pirate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pirate? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.
  2. An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
  3. One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission
  4. (ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
  5. A kind of marble in children's games.
Verb
  1. (transitive, nautical) To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea.
  2. (transitive, intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of
  3. (transitive, intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of
  4. (intransitive) To engage in piracy.
Adjective
  1. Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.
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