BANDITS

Definition: BANDITS

BANDITS

Plural

1. Of Bandit

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BANDITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references)

Synonym: BANDITS

Crosswords: BANDITS

The brutal bungalow of the Blinking Buzzards, a bold bad bunch of blood-thirsty bandits who would break into a bank, blow a battleship to bits or beat up a blue eyed baby blonde (The 'High Sign'; writing credit: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton)

A band of forty bandits. Two or three Samurai could do nothing (Shichinin no samurai; writing credit: Shinobu Hashimoto; Akira Kurosawa)

The Bandits (1967)

Bandits of the West (1953)

Street Bandits (1951)

Lonely Heart Bandits (1950)

Bandits of El Dorado (1949)

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Books

• Bandits Prophets and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus (reference)

• Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements in the Time of Jesus (reference)

• Break the One-Armed Bandits! (reference)

• Gunsmith Cats: Bean Bandits (reference)

• Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How Agriculture Really Began (Darwinism Today (New Haven, Conn.).) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bandits (reference)

• Time Bandits (reference)

• Time Bandits - Criterion Collection (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Render Bandits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Rocket Power Beach Bandits (reference)

• Vanguard Bandits (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The bandits bride vide Herald May 5th 1847. Credit: Library of Congress.

The art of self defense against bandits. Credit: Library of Congress.

American movie hero defeating Mexican bandits. Credit: Library of Congress.

Burning the bodies of dead bandits at Columbus, N.M. Credit: Library of Congress.

Riding on our victories, we will eliminate all American bandits on the soil of Vietnam. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Heroic resistance put forth by the Vietnamese people against the American imperialist aggressor inflicts on the American bandits ever heavier losses. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He is now a matter of tradition among bandits and assassins

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Niger

Attacks by bandits on major routes to the north have declined considerably. (references)

Central African Republic

On October 25, highway bandits stopped a vehicle near Grimari carrying several missionaries. (references)

Central African Republic

The bandits assaulted and injured one of the missionaries and looted the vehicle; government soldiers arrived 2 hours later and shot at and dispersed the bandits. (references)

Economic History

Laos

ON RARE OCCASIONS, BANDITS OR INSURGENTS HAVE ATTACKED INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THE PROJECTS WERE PERCEIVED TO BE ENCROACHING ON TERRITORY THEY CONTROLLED. (references)

Central African Republic

Working with the French, the C.A.R. military is attempting to provide professional training and decentralize its troops in an effort to combat road bandits, thievery, and poaching throughout the C.A.R. territory. (references)

Philippines

Unfortunately, the ability of the administration to drum up foreign investment has been hindered by sometimes violent challenges to the government's legitimacy and by kidnappings and violence caused by separatist bandits and communist guerrillas throughout the archipelago, especially in Mindanao but also in Luzon and Palawan. (references)

Human Rights

Ethiopia

Bandits, often heavily armed, killed civilians during robberies and attempted robberies. (references)

Cameroon

The Police Commissioner claimed the sweep was undertaken to deter bandits from operating in the area. (references)

Somalia

The majority of the rapes were perpetrated by Somali bandits who crossed over the border and a small number were by Kenyan security forces and police. (references)

Political Economy

Gabon

Security forces conducted "sweep" operations intended to detain bandits. (references)

Yemen

On August 3, 1998 the government began to take decisive measures against kidnappers and bandits. (references)

Travel

Russia

Traffic police sometimes stop motorists to levy cash "fines," and bandits occasionally prey on travelers, especially in isolated areas. (references)

Worker Rights

Chad

In December 2000, security forces in N'Djamena reportedly rounded up army deserters and other individuals described as bandits, sent them to the northern military front, and forced them to fight alongside government troops. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

banditë. (various references)

Chinese 

匪盗 (Bandit). (various references)

German

Banditen (badmans). (various references)

Italian

banditi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

兵匪 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へいひ. (various references)

Korean 

산� � (Bandit). (various references)

Pig Latin

anditsbay.(various references)

Russian 

разбойники (bandoleros). (various references)

Spanish

bandito. (various references)

Misspellings

"BANDITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: andit, bandas, bandi, bandite, Banditi, banditis, Bandos, bandwit, banit, Barnitts, bennites, benoist, Dandit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bandit.

-2 letters: adits, antis, baits, bands, basin, binds, bints, dints, ditas, nabis, sabin, saint, satin, staid, stain, stand, tabid, tains, tsadi.

-3 letters: adit, aids, ains, aits, ands, anis, anti, ants, bads, bait, band, bani, bans, bast, bats, bias, bids, bind, bins, bint, bits, dabs, dais, dibs, dins, dint, dita, dits, isba, nabs, nibs.

+1 letter: dingbats, tabanids.

+2 letters: abstained, bastinade, bastinado, bastioned, botanised, waistband, windblast, wristband.

+3 letters: abductions, antibodies, badmintons, bandicoots, banditries, bandwidths, banistered, bastinades, besteading, bloodstain, butadienes, disbarment, submediant, trainbands, waistbands, windblasts, wristbands.

+4 letters: abdications, abridgments, antisubsidy, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, bloodstains, disablement, disbandment, disbarments, disturbance, dubitations, isoantibody, subaudition, subdominant, submediants, subordinate, timberlands, transcribed.

+5 letters: abridgements, absentminded, adumbrations, bastardising, bastardizing, bastinadoing, blandishment, bloodstained, brainstormed, broadcasting, debarkations, defibrinates, disablements, disbandments, discountable, distrainable, disturbances, drumbeatings, indisputable, indisputably, labiodentals, nondiabetics, sandblasting, sedimentable, speedboating, starboarding, subauditions, subdominants, subinfeudate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, undisputable.