n. 1 buccaneer, sea rover, corsair, privateer, freebooter, sea-robber, filibuster, Archaic picaroon Captain Kidd and Blackbeard were actual pirates who looted shipping in the Americas in the 17th century 2 plagiarist, plagiarizer, infringer Some of these pirates offer unauthorized cheap reprints of expensive textbooks
v. 3 plagiarize, infringe, copy, reproduce, steal, appropriate, poach, Colloq lift, pinch, crib Our government has no jurisdiction over those who pirate books in countries with which we have no treaty