|räbə̇n|hu̇d, sometimes -b ə m|- noun
Usage: usually capitalized R&H
Etymology: Robin Hood, legendary English outlaw, hero of a cycle of ballads, first mentioned ab 1377
1. : a person or group whose acts lie partly or wholly outside accepted standards of legality, morality, or propriety ; especially : one that robs the wealthy to aid the needy
a kind of primitive and rather unscrupulous Robin Hood — taking from the rich to give to the poor and keeping undisclosed amounts for itself — J. Halero Ferguson
2. : a spectacular hero
interstellar Robin Hoods … on rocket-motor bikes and space-sphere junkets — T.H.Robsjohn-Gibbings