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dacoit

or 诲补路办辞颈迟

[ duh-koit ]

noun

  1. in India and Myanmar (Burma), a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.


dacoit

/ 诲蓹藞办蓴瑟迟 /

noun

  1. (in India and Myanmar) a member of a gang of armed robbers
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dacoit1

First recorded in 1800鈥10, dacoit is from the Hindi word 岣峚办补颈迟
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of dacoit1

C19: from Hindi dakait, from 诲腻办腻 robbery
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This was impossible, however, while local Hindus remained terrorised by Muslim dacoits - bandits who conducted kidnapping raids from nearby Waziristan.

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In that movie, released in 1971, he played a dacoit 鈥 an armed bandit 鈥 who abducts the lead character鈥檚 love interest.

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"If I were to attempt to do this," the governor said, "I should consider myself no better than a dacoit or thief."

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He is pathologically cruel, a strategist commanding obedience 鈥 to the death 鈥 from the many dacoits, lascars and devastatingly beautiful women in his retinue.

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There is a group of looters, thieves and dacoits!鈥 he said in a聽 thundering voice,聽 pointing to the building behind him.

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