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The definition of loot is stolen money or goods.

(noun)

An example of loot is a television and jewelry robbed from a house.

Loot is defined as to take or steal by force.

(verb)

An example of loot is breaking into a liquor store during a riot and taking a bunch of alcohol.

See loot in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

goods stolen or taken by force, as from a captured enemy city in wartime or by a corrupt official or by rioters; plunder; spoils
the act of looting
Slang
1. money
2. items of value; esp., gifts received

Origin: Hindi lūt < Sans luṇṭ, to rob

transitive verb

to plunder; strip of everything valuable; despoil
to take or carry off as plunder; steal

intransitive verb

to engage in plundering

Related Forms:

looter noun

See loot in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
Stolen goods.
Informal Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
Informal Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
Slang Money.

verb loot·ed, loot·ing, loots

verb, transitive

To pillage; spoil.
To take as spoils; steal.

verb, intransitive

To engage in pillaging.

Origin:

Origin: Hindi lūṭ

Origin: , from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder; see reup- in Indo-European roots

Related Forms:

lootˈer noun

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