Definitions
1.NounA criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns."You should be cautious due to the Somali pirates."
2.NounAn armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.
3.NounOne who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.
4.NounA bird which practises kleptoparasitism.
5.NounA kind of marble in children's games.
6.VerbTo appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea."They pirated the tanker and sailed to a port where they could sell the ship and cargo."
7.VerbTo create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.
8.VerbTo knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of."Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy."
9.VerbTo engage in piracy."He pirated in the Atlantic for years before becoming a privateer for the Queen."
10.VerbTo entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.
11.AdjectiveIllegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.