Meaning of Loot | Babel Free

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
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
4. Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
   uncountable
5. Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
   US, colloquial, uncountable
6. Synonym of money.
   slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Loot, plunder, pillage.”

“He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.”

“Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.”

“The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.”

“But yet, with the persistent avariciousness of the white man, the Arabs clung to their loot, and when morning came forced the demoralized Manyuema to take up their burdens of death and stagger on into the jungle.”

“India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.”

“The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.”

“He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.”

“Free Loot for Children”

“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.”

“There was nothing to do except for Mom to go back slaving away as somebody's maid. In Baltimore she couldn't make half the loot she could up North.”

“How about all of those guys, dolls, dancers, fancy orchestration, and special lyrics? Didn't all of that cost a lot of loot? A good question. Would you believe me if I told you that we bought all of that talent for less than $10,000?”

“Movies and TV were […] continuing to pretend for many years that the contents of a single briefcase could purchase a small country. Lately, though, filmmakers have made some sincere efforts to be realistic about the sheer bulk of pilfered loot)”

“R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.”

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