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"air piracy"
French boucanier woodsman, pirate (in the 17th century West Indies), from boucaner to smoke meat, from boucan wooden frame for smoking meat, from Tupi mokaʔẽ́, mbokaʔẽ́, from mo-, mbo- causative marker + kaʔẽ to be roasted, dried
The first known use of buccaneer was in 1686
buck1 of 4noun
or plural buck a male animalespecially: a male deer or antelope
man entry 1 sense 1a
dandy sense 1
dollar sense 3b
a sum of money especially to be gained
make a quick buck
buck2 of 4verb
to spring into the air with the back arched
a bucking horse
to throw (as a rider) by bucking
to move or act against the action of buck a trend
bucking a storm
to move or start jerkily
buck3 of 4noun
an act or instance of bucking
buck4 of 4noun
responsibility
pass the buck
buccaneernoun
pirate entry 1
1 But the Gunners played a rigid 'give and go' style that left little room for Cunningham's buccaneering gallops.
2 In fact, Robert Evans had a kind of 21st-century afterlife as a buccaneering yet absurd player.
3 The throwbacks are inspired by the orange and white uniforms the team wore from their inaugural season in 1976 up until 1996, which also became famous for the widely recognizable logo of Bucco Bruce, a mustachioed buccaneer who bites down on a blade.
4 His chocolate triumph is not the result of a snap buccaneering move, but follows decades of immersing himself in the cocoa business.
他这场“巧克力胜仗”不是一次海盗式的快速掠夺,而是浸淫可可交易几十载的结果。
5 Once, the pied pipers of Brexit played tunes of hope and optimism with fantasies of buccaneering freedom, but none of that is left; not in Westminster or anywhere else.
6 The buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than just securing husbands and titles.
7 Those conventions have been upended by Trump’s buccaneering approach to affairs of state - the kind of approach he thinks worked in his landmark summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month.
8 English-speaking buccaneers and logwood cutters had established a presence in the British Settlement in the Bay of Honduras, as Belize was then known.
9 The historians of the 22nd century might begin with archive pictures of Sunday's flotilla, looking for signs of post-imperial hangover, marvelling at our attachment to a buccaneering, maritime past.
10 Sadly, neither I nor Gawker.com, the buccaneering flagship of the group I built with my colleagues, are coming along for this next stage.
11 The buccaneering oligarchs who em-erged in the 1990s were bright, self-made men who ruthlessly exploited every opportunity offered by the transition economy.
12 The buccaneering score established Korngold as the Errol Flynn of studio composers, though, as was standard practice at the time, once the footage was in the can, the full score went in the bin.
13 Tampa Bay will wear white jerseys with red numbers, pewter pants and its pewter and red buccaneer helmet.
14 England have won 11 of their past 13 Tests in buccaneering fashion.
15 buccaneers preyed upon treasure-laden ships in the Caribbean for nearly three hundred years
16 But some fear this buccaneering tradition is coming to a close.
17 He shares a defining belief in himself – despite both being handed fortunes by their fathers – as a self-made and buccaneering outsider.
18 But the government should not "bow to buccaneering regulatory pressures", she added.
19 Born in South Africa, with technical skills from his training in physics, Musk embraces the buccaneering culture of Silicon Valley.
20 Nathan Drake’s superb finale sees the series hero off on a final buccaneering escapade with his long lost brother, fending off fellow plunderers and his own sometimes errant internal compass.