BANDIT
NOUNS, PERSON
► BANDIT a lawless desperate marauder, a brigand; usually applied to members of the organized gangs which infested the mountainous districts of Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, and Turkey; also, in modern use: a gangster, a member of a criminal gang, esp. one involved in organized crime → 1594
► BANDULU a bandit; a criminal; one who lives by guile → 20C W. Indies Rasta usage
► BANISHED MAN a bandit; an outlaw → 1398 obs.
► MOSS-TROOPER a bandit or raider, in Scotland beyond the Borders, or elsewhere; a member of an undisciplined or renegade group → 1651
► RAPPAREE an Irish bandit, robber, plunderer, or freebooter; any ruffianly vagabond → 1690
VERBS
► TAKE TO THE HEATHER to become an outlaw or bandit → 1896
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