[ noun ] an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band <noun.person>
Bandit \Ban"dit\ (b[a^]n"d[i^]t), n.; pl. {Bandits} (b[a^]n"d[i^]ts), or {Banditti} (b[a^]n*d[i^]t"t[i^]). [It. bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf. {Banish}.] An outlaw; a brigand.
No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton.
Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun.
Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir W. Scott.
The bandit pointed a gun at a clerk inside the Seaquarium, grabbed the cash and fled into the night Wednesday, said police Lt. Steve Ducharme.
An 82-year-old man accused of robbing a bank and making his getaway on a 10-speed bicycle may be the "salt-and-pepper" bandit wanted in nearly a dozen holdups in the last two years, police said.
He ran back in time to see the bandit jump into a car and leave, Anderson said.
A bandit with a penchant for robbing banks and a knack for escape is back behind bars because plastic surgery designed to make him look like actor Robert DeNiro failed to fool the feds.
Our host, Kolia Nijaradze, may have looked like a wild-eyed bandit, but a rough demeanour hid only a gentle cattle farmer. Perhaps it is their demanding environment that makes the Svans look so tough.
Danielle Tyece Mast was also known as the "American Beauty" bandit, because of the assorted wigs, cosmetics and sunglasses she wore during a series of heists that began July 15, Assistant U.S. Attorney William Price said.
A few blocks away, a housewife of about 40 looked happily at the American troops. "There was no other way to get this bandit out," she said of Noriega.
"It is obvious that the bandit has never eaten at Amelia's," proclaims a waterfront restaurant that turned an armed robbery into a public relations bonanza.
Over the past few years, though, the bandit has become socialistically if not quite socially acceptable.
The bandit was shot to death when, in trying to flee, he tried to commandeer a car driven by an off-duty correction officer.
The bandit shot him to death and fled.
In addition to the usual disguise, the well-dressed bandit has been known to wear bandages on his face.
Remember the Frito Bandito, a mustachioed, sombrero-wearing bandit who used to sell corn chips on television? Frito-Lay laid him to rest in 1971 after complaints from Hispanic groups that the portrayal was demeaning.
"The bandit got them to the church on time, but the police got them to the reception on time," Detective Walter Fahey said proudly.
He wasn't a big-time bandit," said State District Judge Carroll Wilborn Jr., who prosecuted McKeand.
As a crack helicopter pilot, he was a coldly efficient killer skimming across the jungles of Vietnam or a brazen bandit swooping down on target banks in Texas, Louisiana and Nevada.