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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: sack
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, colloquial, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: money
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of lieutenant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, dated, slang
Topics: government, military, politics, war
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence, particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: plunder, to seize by violence, particularly during the capture of a city during war or
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence, particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
To rifle through a dead body and the deceased's belongings, taking anything worth stealing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Qualifier: chiefly South Asian
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence
Antonyms: none provided
noun
goods or money obtained illegally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stolen property
noun
informal terms for money
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: money
verb
steal goods; take as spoils
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: take
Narrower terms: deplume, displume
verb
take illegally; of intellectual property
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: plunder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: steal
History
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.
Borrowed from Middle Dutch loet or loete (“scoop, shovel, scraper”), from reconstructed Old Dutch *lōta, from Old Frankish *lōtija (“scoop”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“scoop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh2- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”). Related to lade and ladle, and cognate with Dutch loet, Scots lute or luyt (“scoop”), West Frisian loete or lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), and French louche (“ladle”).
Clipping.
Across languages
78 source translations are retained for this English entry.
