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buccaneers
/ˌbʌkəˈniɹz/
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What does buccaneers mean?
noun
- plural of buccaneer
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌbʌkəˈniɹz/
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There lay the schooner, clear at last from buccaneers and ready for our own men to board and get to sea again.
Doubtless he was the descendant of the Spanish-English buccaneers who used to prowl the Caribbean Sea and make headquarters at New Orleans.
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A curious misapprehension seems to exist about that term "Spanish Main," which somehow suggests to me infinite romance; conquistadores, treasure-ships, gentlemen-adventurers, and bold buccaneers.
I forget whether I have told you that there was a stave on the rock, driven into it by some buccaneers of long ago to mark the site of buried treasure.
One of the most trying defects which I find in these Stratfordolaters, these Shakesperiods, these thugs, these bangalores, these troglodytes, these herumfrodites, these blatherskites, these buccaneers, these bandoleers, is their spirit of irreverence.