Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word OUTLAW

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Definitions of OUTLAW

1. A fugitive from the law.
2. A person who operates outside established norms.
3. A wild horse.
4. To declare illegal.
5. To place a ban upon.
6. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
7. To deprive of legal force.
8. (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
9. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
10. (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
11. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
12. A nicknames surname from nicknames.

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Examples of Using OUTLAW in a Sentence

• 1521 – The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
• Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema.
• "Rogue state" (or sometimes "outlaw state") is a term applied by some international theorists to states that they consider threatening to the world's peace.
• January 30 – William Kidd, who initially seized foreign ships under authority as a privateer for the British Empire before becoming a pirate, becomes an outlaw and uses his ship, the Adventure Galley, to capture an Indian ship, the valuable Quedagh Merchant, near India.
• Legislation can have many purposes: to regulate, to authorize, to outlaw, to provide (funds), to sanction, to grant, to declare, or to restrict.
• Watkins, originally as an outlaw or ‘desperado’ (hence his name), but evolved into a more sympathetic type, using his strength to help the underdog.
• It stars Errol Flynn as the legendary Saxon knight Robin Hood, who in Richard I's absence in the Holy Land during the Crusades, fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla band against Prince John and the Norman lords oppressing the Saxon commoners.
• She made her screen debut in 1967 in The Happening, the same year she made Hurry Sundown with an all-star cast, and rose to fame with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination.
• Declared an outlaw by the Spanish king in 1580, he was assassinated by Balthasar Gérard in Delft in 1584.
• The Outlaw Josey Wales is a 1976 American revisionist Western film set during and after the American Civil War.
• The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913.
• Pat Garrett, the lawman famed for killing outlaw Billy the Kid, was born near the town of Cusseta in 1850.
• An Isthmian outlaw, Sciron dwelt at the Sceironian Rocks, a cliff on the Saronic coast of the Isthmus of Corinth on the Megarian territory.
• Brushy Bill, the man who claimed to be the infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid, died in Hico, Texas and is buried in Hamilton County.
• "Henry Antrim", an alias used by Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid, a 19th-century outlaw.
• John Carter served as the first sheriff of Craven County, but died in 1740 in the line of duty, when ambushed by an outlaw he was trying to apprehend.
• The Aboriginal outlaw Joe Flick shot dead a Native Police officer and wounded Frank Hann during a shootout at Lawn Hill in 1889.
• Other famous people in Creede were Robert Ford (the man who killed outlaw Jesse James), Bat Masterson, and William Sidney "Cap" Light (the first deputy sheriff in Creede, and brother-in-law of Soapy Smith).
• Pretty Boy Floyd, a 1930s Midwestern outlaw, was born in Adairsville shortly before his family left Georgia for Oklahoma.
• The 1881 robbery of the Sexton Bank at Riverton was initially suspected to be the work of Jesse James, but it was soon correctly attributed to the outlaw Poke Wells.
• The ill will of these actions was to be the basis for the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The Outlaw Josey Wales.
• Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw born in the town on Thursday, January 1, 1880, whose body was displayed many times between 1911, when he died in a shootout with police officers, up until 1976.
• Henry Plummer (1832–1864), sheriff and outlaw leader of The Innocents, in Bannack, Montana, Idaho Territory.
• In the latter 1870s Maxwell's son Pete befriended legendary outlaw Billy the Kid, and it was in his house that Billy was killed by Pat Garrett.
• The lynching of Wyatt Outlaw, the first African-American Town Commissioner and Constable of Graham, on February 26, 1870, by the Ku Klux Klan, along with the assassination of State Senator John W.

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