About The Word Loot

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Loot

Loot Meaning & Definition
Loot Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Loot?

[n] goods or money obtained illegally
[n] informal terms for money
[v] steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
[v] take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Loot: booty | bread | cabbage | despoil | dinero | dough | foray | gelt | kale | lucre | moolah | pelf | pillage | pillage | plunder | plunder | prize | ransack | reave | rifle | shekels | strip | swag

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | cut | deplume | displume | money | steal | stolen property | take

Loot In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\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.

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