pirateship

noun

pirateship

noun

Etymology From pirate + -ship.

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Synonym of piracy.

I don't approve of pirateship such as they did in their recent examples.1918, Jack Morris Wright, A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Morris Wright, First Lieutenant of the American Aviation in France, April, 1917-January, 1918, page 55:

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