Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A robber, especially one who robs at gunpoint.
- noun An outlaw; a gangster.
- noun One who cheats or exploits others.
- noun Slang A hostile aircraft, especially a fighter aircraft.
- idiom (make out like a bandit) To be highly successful in a given enterprise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To outlaw; proscribe; banish.
- noun An outlaw; one who is proscribed. Hence A lawless or desperate fellow; a brigand; a robber; especially, one of an organized band of lawless marauders.
- noun Synonyms Brigand, etc. See
robber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An outlaw; a brigand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
robs others - noun an
outlaw - noun one who
cheats others - noun military An enemy aircraft.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But people assume the bandits are illegal as well because of what they are called 'bandits'; but the term bandit was introduced to English via Italian around 1590 in Europe...so the word existed WAY before there was even a Mexico, or United States of America.
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Like many, she blames Mr. Yeltsin for wasting a historic opportunity, ushering in what she calls a bandit regime controlled by powerful oligarchs, and generating profound distrust of politicians.
New Russia Turns 20, Its Martyrs Forgotten Richard Boudreaux 2011
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My alma matta, SUNY Buffalo, has made out like a bandit from the change.
State Universities vs. Vouchers, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.”
Archive 2009-04-01 ____Maggie 2009
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She nonchalantly wrote, “Deep under them both is solid blue clay, embalming the fossil horse and fossil ox and the great mastodon, the same preserving blue clay that was dug up to wrap the head of the Big Harp in bandit days, no less a monstrous thing when carried in for reward.”
Eudora Welty: Some Notes on River Country (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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Among the famous inmates were Benito Juárez (before he was exiled to Louisiana), Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a 19th-century writer who fell out of favor with Emperor Agustín Iturbide, and "Chucho el Roto," a Robin Hood-style bandit from the 1700s who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
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Among the famous inmates were Benito Juárez (before he was exiled to Louisiana), Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a 19th-century writer who fell out of favor with Emperor Agustín Iturbide, and "Chucho el Roto," a Robin Hood-style bandit from the 1700s who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
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Among the famous inmates were Benito Juárez (before he was exiled to Louisiana), Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, a 19th-century writer who fell out of favor with Emperor Agustín Iturbide, and "Chucho el Roto," a Robin Hood-style bandit from the 1700s who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
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Seattle frequently played a defense it refers to as the bandit, which features seven defensive backs, linebacker Lofa Tatupu and just three down linemen.
The Seattle Times 2010
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He’d been told to man a machine-gun and to protect one side of a defensive position deep in bandit country.
Youth Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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