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free⋅boot

[free-boot]
–verb (used without object)
to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.

Origin:
1585–95; back formation from freebooter
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free·boot   (frē'bōōt')   
intr.v.   free·boot·ed, free·boot·ing, free·boots
To act as a freebooter; plunder.

[Back-formation from freebooter.]
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