1. A seafaring, swashbuckling, rum-guzzling, booze-smuggling, freebooting, filibustering, far-marauding, trespassing, sabre-rattling, word-cursing, gold-toothing, eye-patching,
peg-legging, commandeering, vagabonding, bootlegging,
buccaneering, highway-robbing, wave-raiding, booty-looting-plundering-and/or-pilfering-brigand. Occasional irritant to pre-industrial world trade and international shipping, see Captain Phillips. A person considered sinful and immoral by European colonial empires that engaged in the slave trade and ethnic cleansing. A dangerous criminal, unless enlisted on our side, and then known as a Buccaneer, a Corsair or a Privateer.
2. An original Pastafarian, as mentioned in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, one of the Chosen People, the precursors to the modern
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
3. The sworn enemy and worst nightmare of a Ninja, to which a Pirate is always incalculably superior.
4. A saintly computer programmer, making expensive intellectual property free through their Bay.
5. An evil, profiteering, fat-cat, corporate, commie, big-wig thief, freebooting online content for its ad revenue at the creator's expense
6. CAPTAIN, Jack Sparrow.
Example:
"Do what you want, 'cause a pirate is free,
YOU ARE A PIRATE!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want 'cause a pirate be free,
You are a pirate!"
"Why join the Navy . . . if you can be a pirate?" - Steve Jobs
"PIRATES. I HATE THOSE FILTHY BANDITS."