'Loot' definitions:

Definition of 'loot'

(from WordNet)
noun
Goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]
noun
Informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
verb
Take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder]
verb
Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

Definition of 'Loot'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

Definition of 'Loot'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]

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