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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
freeboot
 
SYLLABICATION:free·boot
PRONUNCIATION:  frbt
INTRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: free·boot·ed, free·boot·ing, free·boots
To act as a freebooter; plunder.
ETYMOLOGY:Back-formation from freebooter.
 
 
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