dacoit

American  

[duh-koit] / dəˈkɔɪt /

Or dakoit

noun

1. in India and Myanmar (Burma), a member of a class of criminals who engage in organized robbery and murder.

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dacoit British  

/ dəˈkɔɪt /

noun

1. (in India and Myanmar) a member of a gang of armed robbers

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Etymology

Origin of dacoit

First recorded in 1800–10, dacoit is from the Hindi word ḍakait

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Example Sentences

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dacoit

Last year, after Man Singh slipped through his fingers once again, Narasinghrao Dixit, the home minister of Madhya Bharat province, vowed to resign if he failed to trap the notorious dacoit within a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last October, Narayan told me, he had been visited by a man claiming to be a lesser dacoit.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last the dacoit had fulfilled his vow to Kali.

From Time Magazine Archive

At a government guesthouse in the village of Jaura, deep in dacoit country, I talked with Jayaprakash Narayan, 69, director of the Gandhi Institute of Studies and once a prominent Socialist politician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also, I wished to understand how such a people could produce the dacoit of the newspaper, and I knew that a great deal of promiscuous knowledge comes to him who sits down by the wayside.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling

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