loot
noun
1. goods or money obtained illegally
Similar word(s): booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag
Definition categories: possession
2. informal terms for money
Similar word(s): boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
Definition categories: possession, money
Sentences with loot as a noun:
- the loot of an ancient city
verb
1. take illegally; of intellectual property
Similar word(s): plunder
Definition categories: possession, rip, steal
2. steal goods; take as spoils
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
Similar word(s): despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip
Definition categories: possession, take