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means A pirate or sea-raider, especially one operating in the Caribbean, sometimes with tacit or official backing from a government.

from Traces back to the French 'boucanier,' meaning one who smokes meat on a 'boucan' — a wooden grill borrowed from Caribbean Indigenous peoples (likely via Tupi) for slow-roasting game. French and English hunters on Hispaniola used these grills to cure meat and hides for passing ships; when colonial authorities pushed them off the land, many drifted into piracy and raiding, carrying the name with them. So the word walks a strange path from barbecue pit to broadside cannon.