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loot

/lut/noun, verb1 syllable

Loot means: informal terms for money.

Synonyms for loot34

noun, as in informal terms for money

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

noun, as in goods or money obtained illegally

booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money

verb, as in steal goods; take as spoils

plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray

verb, as in take illegally; of intellectual property

plunder

also used for loot

goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly, sack, money

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What does loot mean?4

noun

1

informal terms for money

2

goods or money obtained illegally

verb

1

steal goods; take as spoils“During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners”

2

take illegally; of intellectual property“This writer plundered from famous authors”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with loot?28

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Loot in a sentence

  • The next dungeon is hard, but it's got very valuable loot.sabretou
  • The thief outwitted the police and got away with his loot.CM
  • The thieves divvied up the stolen loot among themselves.darinmex
  • You can only find dragon scales as a loot drop by killing dragons.sabretou
  • We split up the loot among the three of us.AlanF_US
  • Let's go to loot the supermarket!unknown
  • The thieves split up their loot.AlanF_US
  • This is your share of the loot.Hybrid

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of loot

as a noun

plural
loots

as a verb

past tense
looted
present participle
looting
third-person singular
loots