bandit
IPA: bˈændʌt
noun
- One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
- An outlaw.
- One who cheats others.
- (military, aviation) An aircraft identified as an enemy, but distinct from "hostile" or "threat" in that it is not immediately to be engaged.
- (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
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Examples of "bandit" in Sentences
- The bandit problem was the worst during the 1850's.
- The bandits just wanted to snatch the corporal's gun.
- It is the sequel to the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit.
- He was also mentioned in the film Smokey and the Bandit.
- The bandit had not even the decency to reveal his weapon.
- Stopping the locomotive, the two bandits entered the mail car.
- The courier is murdered once he hands the money to the bandits.
- Finn defeats the bandit, earning the respect of the townspeople.
- It speaks of the bloodthirsty bandit, based in the local forests.
- Strahinja gathers a posse of scoundrels and goes after the bandits.
- My alma matta, SUNY Buffalo, has made out like a bandit from the change.
- He’d been told to man a machine-gun and to protect one side of a defensive position deep in bandit country.
- Seattle frequently played a defense it refers to as the bandit, which features seven defensive backs, linebacker Lofa Tatupu and just three down linemen.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.