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Loot \Loot\ (l[=oo]t), n. [Hind. l[=u][.t], Skr. l[=o]tra, l[=o]ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]

1. The act of plundering. [1913 Webster]

2. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city. [1913 Webster]

3. Hence: Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty. [PJC]

4. Broadly: Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday. [PJC]

5. Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures. [slang] [PJC]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.]

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. [1913 Webster]

Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L. Oliphant. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

 

96 Moby Thesaurus words for "loot": abduct, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, blackmail, boodle, booty, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, depredate, despoil, destroy, dough, filthy lucre, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gelt, go on, graft, greenbacks, gut, hammer, haul, hot goods, jack, kidnap, knock off, knock over, lay waste, lettuce, lift, lucre, maraud, maul, moolah, mug, perks, perquisite, pickings, pillage, plunder, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, rage, raid, ramp, rampage, ransack, rant, rape, ravage, rave, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, riot, roar, rob, ruin, sack, savage, seizure, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, storm, swag, sweep, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, throttle, till, vandalize, violate, wreck

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

 

loot

noun

1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

verb

1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: plunder]
2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

 

Loot \Loot\, n. [Hind. l?t, Skr. l?tra, l?ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]

1. The act of plundering.

2. Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.]

To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.O?phant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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