loot

Plural: loots

Noun

• goods or money obtained illegally
• informal terms for money
• Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
• Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
• Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
• Synonym of money.
• A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
• Clipping of lieutenant.

Verb

Verb Forms: looted, looting, loots

• To steal goods, typically during a war or riot.
• take illegally; of intellectual property
• steal goods; take as spoils
  • "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
• Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
• Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.

Examples

• He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.
• He managed to LOOT a triple-word score with ’QUIZ’ and an ’S’, snatching victory.
• The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.
• We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.

Synonyms

boodle, booty, bread, cabbage, clams, despoil, dinero, dirty money, dough, foray, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, pillage, plunder, prize, ransack, reave, rifle, scratch, shekels, simoleons, strip, sugar, swag, wampum, goods seized from an enemy by violence, money, particularly, rob, sack, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence

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