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n. A person involving in air piracy.
Wikipedia
Air pirates (also known as sky pirates) are a type of stock character from science fiction and fantasy.
Air pirate may refer to:
- Air pirate, a stock character from science fiction and fantasy, also known as a "sky pirate"
- A person who commits air piracy, the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group
- The Air Pirates, a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company
- The 1-211 Attack-Reconnaissance Battalion of the U.S. Army, an AH-64 attack helicopter unit, goes by the name "Air Pirates".
Usage examples of "air pirate".
The great field of the Transcontinental lines was packed with excited men and women, waiting to catch a glimpse of two of the greatest things the country had heard of in the centuryArcot's molecular motion machine and the Air Pirate!
They hadn't had any major air pirate activity in his neck of the woods in more than a year.
The first Master, Stafford Pardee, was an air pirate who suddenly wanted to get religion.
John Fuller, designing engineer, helped the two men to build a ship which used the drive in order to have a weapon to seek out and capture the mysterious Air Pirate whose robberies were ruining Transcontinental Airways.
But this time there would be no chance to even the score with the bold Yankee air pirate.