highwayman
pronunciation
How to pronounce highwayman in British English:
UK [ˈhaɪweɪmən]
How to pronounce highwayman in American English:
US [ˈhaɪˌwemən]
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- Noun:
- a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
Word Origin
- highwayman (n.)
- "one who travels the highways with intent to rob people" (often on horseback and thus contrasted to a footpad), 1640s, from highway + man.
Example
- 1. A highwayman comes riding , up to the old inn-door .
- 2. This mirrors the true story of captain meadows taylor who published " confessions of a thug " in 1839 , a bestseller based on a murderous highwayman named ameer ali .
- 3. So young , tight-lipped sheppard , still in his teens , only five feet four inches tall , and very slender and pale , became a petty thief , then a highwayman , with no future to hope for except the gallows or rival 's bullet .
- 4. It is said that at one time a highwayman lived in this house .
- 5. She also tells of being robbed a highwayman , meeting a hungarian princess at a ball , and the specifics of how her husband lost their guidebook .