a lawless person or habitual criminal, esp. one who is a fugitive from the law.

a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law.

a person under sentence of outlawry.

a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group; rebel; nonconformist

one of the outlaws of country music.

Chiefly Western U.S.

a horse that cannot be broken; a mean, intractable horse.

any rogue animal.

to make unlawful or illegal

The Eighteenth Amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating beverages in the U.S.

to deprive of thebenefits and protection of the law

Members of guerrilla bands who refused to surrender were outlawed.

to prohibit

to outlaw smoking in a theater.

to remove from legal jurisdiction; deprive of legal force.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an outlaw.

verb

allow , legalize , permit

noun

bandit , brigand , con , criminal , crook , desperado , drifter , ex-con , fugitive , gangster , gunslinger , hood * , hoodlum , hooligan * , jailbird , marauder , mobster , mug * , outcast , pariah , racketeer , robber , wrong number

verb

ban , banish , bar , condemn , damn , disallow , embargo , enjoin , exclude , forbid , illegalize , inhibit , interdict , prevent , proscribe , stop , taboo , debar , prohibit , bandit , criminal , crook , desperado , felon , fugitive , gangster , hoodlum , miscreant