Definition of pirate

"pirate" in the noun sense

1. plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, literary pirate, pirate

someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

2. pirate, buccaneer, sea robber, sea rover

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

3. pirate, pirate ship

a ship that is manned by pirates

"pirate" in the verb sense

1. pirate

copy illegally of published material

2. commandeer, hijack, highjack, pirate

take arbitrarily or by force

"The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami"

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Quotations for pirate

When the pirate prays, there is great danger. [ Proverb ]

One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask. [ Proverb ]

He changes his flag to conceal his being a pirate. [ Proverb ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

pirate in Scrabble®

The word pirate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters pirate:

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pirate in Words With Friends™

The word pirate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters pirate:

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Word Growth involving pirate

Shorter words in pirate

at ate rate irate

at rat rate irate

pi

Longer words containing pirate

aspirate aspirated deaspirated

aspirate aspirated nonaspirated

aspirate aspirated unaspirated

aspirate aspirates deaspirates

aspirate aspirates nonaspirates

aspirate deaspirate deaspirated

aspirate deaspirate deaspirates

aspirate nonaspirate nonaspirated

aspirate nonaspirate nonaspirates

inspirate inspirated

inspirate inspirates

perspirate perspirated

perspirate perspirates

pirated aspirated deaspirated

pirated aspirated nonaspirated

pirated aspirated unaspirated

pirated inspirated

pirated perspirated

pirated respirated

pirated transpirated

pirates aspirates deaspirates

pirates aspirates nonaspirates

pirates inspirates

pirates perspirates

pirates respirates

pirates transpirates

respirate respirated

respirate respirates

transpirate transpirated

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