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Loot
Definitions
- 1 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. uncountable
"Loot, plunder, pillage."
- 2 A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks. Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
- 3 Clipping of lieutenant. US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, dated, slang
"R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station."
- 4 goods or money obtained illegally wordnet
- 5 Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war. uncountable
"He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command."
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- 6 informal terms for money wordnet
- 7 Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents. US, colloquial, uncountable
"Free Loot for Children"
- 8 Synonym of money. slang, uncountable
"I got my mink the hard way. I paid for it. It cost a lot of loot and it took a little while to do it, but it's all mine."
- 1 Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat. transitive
"We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us."
- 2 steal goods; take as spoils wordnet
- 3 Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence. transitive
"He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’"
- 4 take illegally; of intellectual property wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Borrowed from Middle Dutch loet or loete (“scoop, shovel, scraper”), from reconstructed Old Dutch *lōta, from Old Frankish *lōtija (“scoop”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“scoop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”). Related to lade and ladle, and cognate with Dutch loet, Scots lute or luyt (“scoop”), West Frisian loete or lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), and French louche (“ladle”).
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