loot meaning and definition

LOOT noun

Definition of loot (noun)

1. goods or money obtained illegally
   • synonyms: booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag
2. informal terms for money
   • synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

LOOT verb

Definition of loot (verb)

1. take illegally; of intellectual property
   • "This writer plundered from famous authors"
   • synonyms: plunder
2. steal goods; take as spoils
   • "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
   • synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip