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- Dictionarybuccaneer/ˌbʌkəˈnɪə/
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- 1. a pirate, originally one operating in the Caribbean: historical "the marauding buccaneers who used to terrorize the Mediterranean coasts"
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Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries. First established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, their heyday was from the Restoration in 1660 until about 1688, during a time when governments in the Caribbean area were not strong enough to suppress them. Wikipedia