English > crook: 4 senses > noun 1, person Meaning | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
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Synonyms | criminal, felon, outlaw, malefactor |
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Instances | Bonney, William H. Bonney, Billie the Kid | United States outlaw who was said to have killed 21 men (1859-1881) |
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James, Jesse James | United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882) |
MacGregor, Robert MacGregor, Rob Roy | Scottish clan leader and outlaw who was the subject of a 1817 novel by Sir Walter Scott (1671-1734) |
Narrower | accessory, accessary | someone who helps another person commit a crime |
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arsonist, incendiary, firebug | A criminal who illegally sets fire to property |
blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist | A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them |
bootlegger, moonshiner | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor |
briber, suborner | someone who pays (or otherwise incites / incites) you to commit a wrongful / wrongful act |
conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator | A member of a conspiracy |
desperado, desperate criminal | A bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) |
fugitive, fugitive from justice | someone who is sought by law officers |
gangster, mobster | A criminal who is a member of gang |
highbinder | A corrupt politician |
highjacker, hijacker | someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination |
hood, hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer | An aggressive and violent young criminal |
jail bird, jailbird, gaolbird | A criminal who has been jailed repeatedly |
kidnapper, kidnaper, abductor, snatcher | someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) |
mafioso | A member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States |
moll, gun moll, gangster's moll | The girlfriend of a gangster |
murderer, liquidator, manslayer | A criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful / unlawful / unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) |
probationer, parolee | someone released on probation or on parole |
pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker | An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs |
racketeer | someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud / fraud or extortion) |
raper, rapist | someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse |
recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal | someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) |
scofflaw | One who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses |
smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser | someone who imports or exports without paying duties |
thief, stealer | A criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it |
traitor, treasonist | someone who betrays his country by committing treason |
violator, lawbreaker, law offender | someone who violates the law |
Broader | principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement |
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Spanish | criminal, delincuente, forajido, malhechor, transgresor, trasgresor |
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Catalan | criminal, delinqüent, malfactor, transgressor |
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