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picaroon

/pik-uh-roon/US // ˌpɪk əˈrun //UK // (ˌpɪkəˈruːn) //

皮卡龙,皮卡隆,皮卡洛恩

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a rogue, vagabond, thief, or brigand.
    • : a pirate or corsair.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to act or operate as a pirate or brigand.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.

  • I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.

  • On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

  • MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

  • Picaroon, a pirate or buccaneer originally; now an ordinary thief.