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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
  2. n. Stolen goods.
  3. n. Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
  4. n. Informal Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
  5. n. Slang Money.
  6. v. To pillage; spoil.
  7. v. To take as spoils; steal.
  8. v. To engage in pillaging.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Booty; plunder, especially such as is taken in war.
  2. To plunder, as a house or a city which has been taken by storm; pillage; sack; ransack in search of plunder; also, to seize and carry off as plunder.
  3. To engage in pillage; take booty.

Wiktionary

  1. n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
  2. n. colloquial (US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
  3. n. video games Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
  4. v. to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
  5. v. video games to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of plundering.
  2. n. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.
  3. n. Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.
  4. n. Valuable objects.
  5. n. slang Money.
  6. v. To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. informal terms for money
  2. v. take illegally; of intellectual property
  3. v. steal goods; take as spoils
  4. n. goods or money obtained illegally

Etymologies

  1. Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani लूट /لوٹ lūṭ (spoil, booty), from Sanskrit लुण्ट luṇṭ "to rob, plunder". The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian". (Wiktionary)
  2. Hindi lūṭ, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder; see reup- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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