Definition of loot

noun (n)

• goods or money obtained illegally (noun.possession)

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

  source: wordnet30
• informal terms for money (noun.possession)

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

  source: wordnet30
• The act of plundering. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• take illegally; of intellectual property (verb.possession)

  Synonym: plunder
  

  source: wordnet30
• steal goods; take as spoils (verb.possession)

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

  Example:
  During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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