(chiefly, India, Pakistan, Myanmar) A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, [https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok]
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(chiefly, India) To commit armed robbery.
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