bandit

Borrowed from Italian bandito (“outlawed”), from Late Latin bannire (“to proclaim”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbændɪt/

bandit (plural bandits)

1. One who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group.
2. An outlaw.
3. One who cheats others.
4. (military) An enemy aircraft.
5. (sports, slang) A runner who covertly joins a race without having registered as a participant.

• (one who robs others): See Thesaurus:thief
• (outlaw): criminal, fugitive, outlaw
• (one who cheats others): cheater

• shag bandit

bandit (third-person singular simple present bandits, present participle banditing, simple past and past participle bandited)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To rob, or steal from, in the manner of a bandit.
   • 1921, Munsey's Magazine (volume 74, page 38)

     First, she read the bandit news in the paper, and was rather disappointed to learn that her man had evidently taken a night off from banditing. An imitator of the bandit had made an unsuccessful attempt to hold up a drug-store, and had backed out and run when the nervy proprietor reached for a gun; but that was all.

   • 1937, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 160, page 7)

     As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure.

• IT Band, IT band

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.di/

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• Rhymes: -i
• Homophone: bandits

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. bandit
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:

     « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »

     "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."

• banditisme

• “bandit” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Dutch bandiet.

bandit (plural bandit-bandit, first-person possessive banditku, second-person possessive banditmu, third-person possessive banditnya)

1. bandit

Borrowed from French bandit.

bandit m (plural bandits)

1. (Jersey) bandit

From Italian bandito.

• IPA^(key): /bǎndiːt/
• Hyphenation: ban‧dit

bàndīt m (Cyrillic spelling ба̀ндӣт)

1. bandit

• “bandit” in Hrvatski jezični portal