Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
- n. Stolen goods.
- n. Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
- n. Informal Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
- n. Slang Money.
- v. To pillage; spoil.
- v. To take as spoils; steal.
- v. To engage in pillaging.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Booty; plunder, especially such as is taken in war.
- 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.
- To engage in pillage; take booty.
Wiktionary
- n. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
- n. colloquial (US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
- n. video games Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games.
- v. to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
- v. video games to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of plundering.
- n. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.
- n. Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.
- n. Valuable objects.
- n. slang Money.
- v. To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
WordNet 3.0
- n. informal terms for money
- v. take illegally; of intellectual property
- v. steal goods; take as spoils
- n. goods or money obtained illegally
Etymologies
- 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)
- Hindi lūṭ, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder; see reup- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Among the loot is a Sweet Pea candle (the pink one in the back) from Full Moon Candles, two of the Choco Balm Experimental Lip Balms and a Banana Nut Bread Beeswax candle and more!”
“Also, there's the fact the table that generates the loot is a little bit off.”
“Conn took care of them, assisted by Sylvie, who had rummaged an even more attractive costume out of what she called the loot-cellar.”
“Sometimes the loot is hidden between burnt books on a shelf or strewn out on the floor.”
“You would think that after all of the catastrophic economic implosions still ongoing in the public sector, that there wouldn't be any more money to loot from the treasuries.”
Ask your doctor, and she may ask about you (Jack Bog's Blog)
“As sure as loot is loot, old Johannes Maartens would have got away and across the Yellow Sea with his booty had it not been for the fog next day that lost him.”
“KUHN: He says the loot from the NATO convoys is openly sold in markets in several cities.”
“Their loot is not too stable, and not enjoyed for long.”
“A Mythos style loot system, where EVERY person gets loot from a monster.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some things we know and don’t know about DIII
“I have heard that the museums there are wonderful – as Chang Kai-shek carried over boat loads of loot from the mainland.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loot’.
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7thGradeWords
horde, doggedly, retina, frail, jovial, insidious, injudicious, brazen, tentative, hortle, adaver, benign and 91 more...
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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emordnilap
reviled, loot, no, ta, rat, part, pit, stop, spat, ten, mad, mart and 108 more...
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You say 'money', I say...
Synonyms for money.
pelf, loot, cheese, greenbacks, cash, moolah, bucks, quid, pounds, numizmatics, clams, spondulicks and 1 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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money
words for currency
money, cheddar, beans, cheese, cash, gwap, cream, brass, cake, bread, scratch, sugar and 41 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Filthy Stinking Rich
Monetary units and other words that mean money. Other financial words are allowed too, as long as they're principally about money. Get it, principally? I kill me.
money, cash, dough, loot, wad, stack, booty, capital, nest egg, treasure, banknote, net and 168 more...
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action
braise, tamp, arc, telemetry, doff, dote, atone, covet, defuse, steep, curb, dip and 79 more...
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Bengali words in English
juggernaut, jute, bungalow, pajama, loot, pundit, sherbet, tom-tom, avatar, guru, cushy
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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rhymes with toot
flute, zoot, moot, root, fruit, shoot, loot, boot, absolute, hoot, suit, cute and 2 more...
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Words Noir
assassination, stiletto, clubbed, shadowed, vengeance, croaked, guilt, conscience, inheritance, detective, dame, murder and 26 more...
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Show Me the Moolah
Slang terms (mostly American) for money.
dough, lettuce, moolah, rhino, spondulicks, buck, sawbuck, greenback, pony, c-note, grand, thou and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for loot.

oroboros Tool in reverse. Jul 22, 2007