loot (n.)

  1. goods or money obtained illegally

    [ Syn: booty , pillage , plunder , prize , swag , dirty money ]

  2. informal terms for money

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

    loot (v.)

  1. take illegally; of intellectual property; This writer plundered from famous authors

    [ Syn: plunder ]

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

    [ Syn: plunder , despoil , reave , strip , rifle , ransack , pillage , foray ]

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