freebooter
Plural: freebooters
Noun
- someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- An adventurer who pillages, plunders, or thieves privately or for compensation; or wages ad-hoc war on other nations, similar to mercenary; also a "freeboot".
- One who rehosts online media without authorization, a form of intellectual property theft; one who freeboots.
Origin / Etymology
From free + booty + -er. Calque of Dutch vrijbuiter (literally “free booty-er”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (occupational suffix). Doublet of filibuster.
Synonyms
despoiler, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler, conquistador, filibuster, mercenary, pirate
Scrabble Score: 15
freebooter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfreebooter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
freebooter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary