Usually means: Adventurous, daring, heroic sword-fighting action.
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  1. swashbuckling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swashbuckling: Merriam-Webster
  3. swashbuckling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. swashbuckling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Swashbuckling, swashbuckling: Wordnik
  6. swashbuckling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. swashbuckling: Wiktionary
  8. swashbuckling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. swashbuckling: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. swashbuckling: Dictionary.com
  11. Swashbuckling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. swashbuckling: Rhymezone
  13. swashbuckling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. swashbuckling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. swashbuckling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Swashbuckling: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swashbuckling: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Adventurous, exciting.

Similar:
adventuresome, swaggering, adventurous, swash, adventureful, dashing, venturesome, overadventurous, action-packed, daring, more...

Opposite:
timid, cautious, meek, reserved, unadventurous

Types:
dashing, daring, gallant, heroic, valiant, more...

Phrases:
swashbuckling arms, swashbuckling fun, swashbuckling activity, more...

Adjectives:
theatrical, most, romantic, old, brutal, less, adjective

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Similar:
adventuresome, swaggering, adventurous, swash, adventureful, dashing, venturesome, overadventurous, action-packed, daring, more...

Opposite:
timid, cautious, meek, reserved, unadventurous

Types:
dashing, daring, gallant, heroic, valiant, more...

Phrases:
swashbuckling arms, swashbuckling fun, swashbuckling activity, more...

Adjectives:
theatrical, most, romantic, old, brutal, less, adjective



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