Definitions for outlaws

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IPA: /ˈaʊtˌlɔ/

Outlaws is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in outlaws (alostuw).

Definitions for outlaws

noun

1. a lawless person or habitual criminal, especially one who is a fugitive from the law.
2. a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.
3. a person under sentence of outlawry.
4. a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist:
5. Chiefly Western U.S. a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse. any rogue animal.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of an outlaw.

verb (used with object)

1. to make unlawful or illegal:
2. to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law:
3. to prohibit:
4. to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.

Origin of outlaws

before 1150; Middle English outlawe, Old English ūtlaga Old Norse ūtlagi one outside the protection of the law; see out, law¹

Examples for outlaws

The friends of the outlaw made a last effort to bring about an accommodation.

Hacker wins the prime ministership by denouncing an EU plot to outlaw the British sausage.

The words of the outlaw had struck something in him that was like metal chiming on metal.

And that minute he turned me from a scared kid into an outlaw—a killer.

The outlaw had a long white beard and looked like an intense Willie Nelson.

Once said to have been rewriting the rules of journalism, Assange has become an outlaw librarian.

Perhaps the outlaw realized at last how severely he had tried his friends' patience.

And yet, no one in Rio is calling for the end of the campaign to reclaim the outlaw zones of the city.

Many court watchers were expecting the justices to outlaw or seriously curtail all uses of race by government actors.

He was severely blamed in the press for parleying with an outlaw.