loot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: loots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: looting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: looted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: looted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
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.
gloss: Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.
gloss: Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
uncountable
examples: Free Loot for Children
gloss: Synonym of money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: 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)
gloss: Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.
Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder
The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.
On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.
gloss: Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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!’
Derived words: lootbox
loot box
loot crate
lootocracy
loot rail
loot whore
ninja loot
lootable
looter
unlooted
when the looting starts, the shooting starts
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