freebooter

/ˌfriˈbudər/

Other forms: freebooters

A freebooter is a looter or raider. Freebooters are pirates.

Originally, freebooters were pirates: roaming scoundrels who sailed the seas in search of spoils or plunder. In other words, freebooters robbed other ships. The term is now also used for people who steal in other settings. Freebooters, in any case, are robbers. The booty may be free for them, but they came by it through theft.

Definitions of freebooter

1. noun

   someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
   synonyms: despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler

   types:

   buccaneer, pirate, sea robber, sea rover

   someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

   Barbary pirate, corsair

   a pirate along the Barbary Coast

   sea king

   a Viking pirate chief

   type of:

   stealer, thief

   a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it