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Dacoit

//dəˈkɔɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India. India, Myanmar, Pakistan

    "1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok […] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts."

  2. 2
    a member of an armed gang of robbers wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To commit armed robbery. India

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”).

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