mooncusser
发音
US
词形变化
mooncussers
复数
mooncussers
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A land-based pirate who, on dark nights along dangerous coasts, would demolish any legitimate lighthouses or beacons, erect a decoy signal fire in a different, deliberately misleading location, and then, after having induced a shipwreck, subdue any survivors and plunder the wreckage for valuables.
历史 幽默
词源
From moon + cusser: the strategy would not work on a moonlit night, so the would-be pirate might be expected to curse the Moon.
来源：wiktionary