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buccaneer
noun
1 a pirate, especially an adventurer who attacked and plundered Spanish ships in the Caribbean during the 17c.
2 derog an opportunistic or unscrupulous businessman or politician, etc.
[17c: from French boucanier , which originally meant -someone who prepares smoked dried meat using a wooden gridiron- (as the French settlers in the Caribbean did); from boucan , the French word for both the gridiron and the dried meat]
noun
1 a pirate, especially an adventurer who attacked and plundered Spanish ships in the Caribbean during the 17c.
2 derog an opportunistic or unscrupulous businessman or politician, etc.
[17c: from French boucanier , which originally meant -someone who prepares smoked dried meat using a wooden gridiron- (as the French settlers in the Caribbean did); from boucan , the French word for both the gridiron and the dried meat]
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