pirate vs sniper

pirate

noun
  • A bird which practises kleptoparasitism. 

  • A kind of marble in children's games. 

  • A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns. 

  • An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels. 

  • One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission. 

verb
  • To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of. 

  • To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea. 

  • To engage in piracy. 

  • To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own. 

adj
  • Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself. 

sniper

noun
  • A hunter of snipe (the bird). 

  • A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond 

  • One who shoots from a concealed position. 

  • A player who specializes in scoring goals. 

  • A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position. 

  • Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position. 

  • One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others. 

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