banditos
South-of-the-border robbers
Banditos is the Spanish-inflected plural of bandit, used in English to evoke Mexican or Latin American outlaws, frontier desperados, or romanticized robbers.
The term carries a cinematic flavor from Westerns and adventure stories: The banditos ambushed the stagecoach.
Sometimes used playfully for minor mischief-makers or rule-breakers.
Irregular armed fighter
- insurgentsThose fighting established authority
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
Pancho Villa · Zapata · freedom fighters · peasant revolt · defiance · struggle · campesinos · liberation
Roving armed robbers
- desperadosReckless criminal fugitives
- fugitivesThose fleeing from law
- highwaymenArmed roadside robbers
- thievesThose who commit larceny
rogues · criminals · gangsters · hoodlums · ruffians · villains · felons · lawbreakers
guerrilla
Irregular armed fighter
- insurgentsThose fighting established authority
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
revolutionaries · Pancho Villa · Zapata · freedom fighters · peasant revolt · defiance · struggle · campesinos · liberation
brigands
Roving armed robbers
- desperadosReckless criminal fugitives
- fugitivesThose fleeing from law
- highwaymenArmed roadside robbers
thieves · rogues · criminals · gangsters · hoodlums · ruffians · villains · felons · lawbreakers · miscreants
frontier
Edge of settlement
- sheriffCounty's chief officer
- saloonDrinking establishment, often frontier
- cowboyMounted cattle herder
desperado · poncho · sombrero · six-shooter · revolver · wanted poster · bounty · posse · gunfight · dusty trail
plunder
Goods seized violently
raid · holdup · heist · stagecoach robbery · booty · spoils · hideout · ransom · kidnapping · cattle rustling
- one-armed banditLever-operated gambling machine
- make out like a banditGain disproportionate advantage
- masked banditDark-eyed nocturnal mammal
- one-arm banditLever-activated gambling device
- time banditSomething stealing your hours
- trash banditGarbage-raiding masked mammal