"freeboot" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈfɹiːbuːt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freeboot.wav Forms: freeboots [present, singular, third-person], freebooting [participle, present], freebooted [participle, past], freebooted [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} freeboot (third-person singular simple present freeboots, present participle freebooting, simple past and past participle freebooted)
  1. To pillage or plunder.
    Sense id: en-freeboot-en-verb-zJyiGTSF Categories (other): Crime, Violence Disambiguation of Crime: 77 0 23 Disambiguation of Violence: 67 16 17
  2. To work as a freeboot (similar to freelance, as an independent operator, a freebooter).
    Sense id: en-freeboot-en-verb-eMyO2Uy3
  3. (transitive) To rehost (online media) without legal authorization, a form of intellectual property theft. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-freeboot-en-verb-xLOQ3ufP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Computing Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 13 75 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 10 79 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 8 84 Disambiguation of Computing: 20 19 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: privateer, mercenary, conquistador

Inflected forms

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