(n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
(v. i.) To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints When Drew Brees runs in for a touchdown in the fourth, that's pretty much end of the game.
(2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(3) The FBI investigated threats of violence made against Malcolm Glazer and his family around the time the late owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was acquiring Manchester United, according to newly released documents.
(4) Anderson, the perennial new-season hope of the United faithful, was the midfield pivot who also made buccaneering runs at goal, while Zaha's pace, and his natural inclination to drift into the area whenever play shifted away from him, nearly yielded the former Palace man a goal.
(5) Mr Glazer’s long-established estate succession plan has assured the Buccaneers will remain with the Glazer family for generations to come.
(6) The Patriots gave up a seventh-round pick plus the rights to Jeff Demps, the Olympic sprinter who claimed a silver medal in the 4x100m relay at London 2012 , in order to obtain Blount from the Buccaneers in April of last year.
(7) He bought the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1995, paying a then record sum of $192m, even though the Bucs were a dismal team.
(8) A third-round pick from the 2002 draft is set to start for the Buccaneers this year.
(9) NFC Wildcards: San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers .
(10) They were of questionable vintage but against a backdrop of spongy-white plaster and dark wood beams, their buccaneering credentials appeared unimpeachable.
(11) Buccaneers 17-42 Saints But, as they say, it wasn't as close as that score indicates.
(12) At Seattle, Steven Hauschka kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8:11 left in overtime as the Seahawks overcame a 21-point deficit to beat the Buccaneers.
(13) In the postwar period he argued passionately for western Europe to come together, to promote free trade, and to build institutions which would endure so that our continent would never again see such bloodshed.” Vote Leave campaigners frequently paint themselves as making a patriotic argument for a buccaneering, free-trading Britain to cut itself loose from the ties of the EU.
(14) Several current and former Sky Sports employees claim Keys and Gray were a double act who were emblematic of a Sky Sports culture that characterised the broadcaster's buccaneering early days but which had failed to move with the rest of the company as it grew to become the biggest media force in Britain.
(15) Buccaneers to win And the rest Here are the rest of this week's games.
(16) Manchester United swept into the EFL Cup semi-finals with the kind of buccaneering display missing from their recent history.
(17) Some of the same buccaneering spirit is at work in Company Theatre .
(18) 6:37 3rd Qr Denver Broncos 31-0 Oakland Raiders, 0:15 3rd Qr Buffalo Bills 3-16 New England Patriots 2:33 3rd Qr Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-28 New Orleans Saints 28, 6:35, 3rd Qr San Francisco 49ers 17-7 Arizona Cardinals, 6:13, 3rd Qr Kansas City Chiefs 24-14 San Diego Chargers, end of 3rd Qr St Louis Rams3-13 Seattle Seahawks, 5:00 3rd Qr Updated at 11.35pm GMT 11.28pm GMT TOUCHDOWN!
(19) He told a conference of the National Association of Pension Funds that shareholders, including pension funds, would need to take their place alongside regulators as a check on the excesses of buccaneering managers.
(20) 2) Tampa Bay Buccaneers Last season: 7-9 What next for the Muscle Hamster?
Corsair
Definition:
(n.) A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
(n.) A piratical vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull's fishing history is celebrated in the Maritime Museum and a renovated trawler in the harbour, the Arctic Corsair.
(2) Adaptations Don Juan and The Corsair were both filmed in melodramatic black and white; the Byronic hero spawned a thousand celluloid imitations - Gabriel Byrne is convincingly Byronic as Byron in Ken Russell's hallucinogenic and slightly laughable Gothic (1986).
(3) Jennifer Egan is the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad (Corsair) Jeanette Winterson Photograph: Murdo Macleod The early 60s was a terrible time for women.
(4) Hunt also called for "an effort to rehumanise music, to connect with the real fans of music, to educate the casual corsair away from a life on the high seas and offer better music on land" in order to "successfully rebrand the music industry as the good guys who give us great music, rather than the bad guys who exploit young talent" – while acknowledging that the latter reputation isn't entirely undeserved.
(5) Three days later his borrowed, blood-splattered Ford Corsair was found abandoned – with a section of bandaged lead piping in the boot – at the cross-Channel port of Newhaven, East Sussex.
(6) Corsair Capital, where Davies is vice-chairman, leads a group of investors that has agreed to buy more than 300 branches of Royal Bank of Scotland to operate under the Williams & Glyn's name.