outlaw

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outlaw

Robin Hood, an outlaw in English folklore.

A wanted poster for Jesse James, an American outlaw.

From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- +‎ law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).

outlaw (plural outlaws)

A fugitive from the law.
(history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
A person who operates outside established norms.
The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
A wild horse.
(humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
(humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
(slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
- 1977, Joseph Julian, Social Problems, page 463:
  Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street.
- 2010, Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die:
  She was an outlaw. Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely.

a fugitive from the law

Bulgarian: беглец (bg) m (beglec)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 逃犯 (zh) (táofàn), 亡命徒 (zh) (wángmìngtú)
Danish: fredløs (da) c
Dutch: vogelvrije (nl)
Esperanto: eksterleĝulo, eksterleĝulino
Estonian: lindprii
Finnish: lainsuojaton (fi)
French: hors-la-loi (fr)
Galician: gallofo m, foraxido m
German: Verfemter (de) m (rare), Outlaw (de) m, Gesetzloser (de) m
Greek: παράνομος (el) m (paránomos), φυγάς (el) m (fygás)
Hungarian: törvényen kívüli
Icelandic: útlagi m
Italian: fuorilegge (it) m
Japanese: 逃亡者 (ja) (とうぼうしゃ, tōbōsha), 逃亡犯 (とうぼうはん, tōbōhan), 逃走者 (ja) (とうそうしゃ, tōsōsha), 逃走犯 (とうそうはん, tōsōhan)
Latin: proscriptus m
Macedonian: бе́галец m (bégalec)
Maori: tangata hara
Norman: proscrit m
Old English: ūtlaga m
Portuguese: fora-de-lei m or f
Romanian: fugar (ro) m
Russian: престу́пник (ru) m (prestúpnik), престу́пница (ru) f (prestúpnica), разбо́йник (ru) m (razbójnik), разбо́йница (ru) f (razbójnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: razbojnik (sh) m, odmetnik (sh) m, izopćenik m
Spanish: forajido (es) m
Swedish: fredlös (sv) c
Tagalog: taunlabas
Welsh: gŵr deol m

person without legal rights

wild horse

outlaw (third-person singular simple present outlaws, present participle outlawing, simple past and past participle outlawed)

To declare illegal.
To place a ban upon.
- 2016 August 15, “'Zombie knives' ban to come into force”, in BBC News‎^[1]:
  The legal change in England and Wales will outlaw selling, manufacturing, renting or importing zombie knives.
To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
to outlaw a debt or claim
To deprive of legal force.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
  our English common law was outlawed in those parts.

to declare illegal

to place a ban on