Usually means: Infamous pirate known for intimidation.
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  1. Blackbeard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Blackbeard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Blackbeard: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Blackbeard: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blackbeard, blackbeard: Wordnik
  6. Blackbeard: Wiktionary
  7. Blackbeard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Blackbeard: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. blackbeard: Dictionary.com
  10. Blackbeard (Pirates of the Caribbean), Blackbeard (disambiguation), Blackbeard (musical), Blackbeard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Blackbeard: Rhymezone
  12. blackbeard: FreeDictionary.org
  13. blackbeard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Blackbeard: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Blackbeard: Encyclopedia

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  1. Blackbeard: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The archetypal pirate, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Similar:
thatch, teach, edward teach, edward thatch, buccaneer, whitebeard, archpirate, pirate, buccanier, butt pirate, more...

Opposite:
whitebeard, fairbeard, lightbeard

Types:
pirate, corsair, buccaneer, privateer, serover, more...

Phrases:
Blackbeard the Pirate, Flag of Blackbeard, Blackbeard in popular culture, blackbeard sailed under it, more...

Adjectives:
great, notorious, famous, infamous, old, bloody, celebrated, last, young, perfidious, wayward

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Similar:
thatch, teach, edward teach, edward thatch, buccaneer, whitebeard, archpirate, pirate, buccanier, butt pirate, more...

Opposite:
whitebeard, fairbeard, lightbeard

Types:
pirate, corsair, buccaneer, privateer, serover, more...

Phrases:
Blackbeard the Pirate, Flag of Blackbeard, Blackbeard in popular culture, blackbeard sailed under it, more...

Adjectives:
great, notorious, famous, infamous, old, bloody, celebrated, last, young, perfidious, wayward



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