Definitions for buccaneers

buccaneers buc·ca·neer

Spelling: [buhk-uh-neer]
IPA: /ˌbʌk əˈnɪər/

Buccaneers is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 535 anagrams from letters in buccaneers (abcceenrsu).

Definitions for buccaneers

noun

  1. any of the piratical adventurers who raided Spanish colonies and ships along the American coast in the second half of the 17th century.
  2. any pirate.

Origin of buccaneers

1655-65; French boucanier, literally, barbecuer, equivalent to boucan barbecue (Tupi, variant of mukém) + -ier -eer

Examples for buccaneers

It was a fame such as no buccaneer—not even Morgan—has ever boasted, before or since.

With these he thought he could keep the buccaneer contingent in order and submissive.

A pretty thing if we were snapped up by a buccaneer and sold in the Plantations!'

As a politician, Sarkozy is as brutal as any buccaneer, and he lets the world see it.

In them were a score of snares for the buccaneer with money in his pocket and dope in his blood.

They had always felt sorry for the unfortunate wife of the buccaneer.

A buccaneer lives for the excitement of deciphering the mysteries of human experience.

A buccaneer wants status, too, but only if that status is justly earned and sustained through the quality of his work.

Drake was a very great sailor, but he was undoubtedly a buccaneer.

My buccaneer transforms himself, under my very eyes, into an alderman!

Word Value for buccaneers
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