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.
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2. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered
or sacked city.
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3. Hence: Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.
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4. Broadly: Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted
with all the loot he got for his birthday.
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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]
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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.
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Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. --L.
Oliphant.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
loot
n 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]
v 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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