Loot

n.	1.	The act of plundering.
	2.	Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.
	3.	Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.
	4.	Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday.
	5.	Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures.
v. t. & i.	1.	To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.] Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses. - L. Oliphant.

Noun	1.	loot - goods or money obtained illegally Synonyms: booty, dirty money, pillage, plunder, prize, swag
	2.	loot - informal terms for money Synonyms: gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, boodle, clams, dinero, shekels, simoleons, wampum, dough, bread, cabbage, sugar, scratch
Verb	1.	loot - take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" Synonyms: plunder
	2.	loot - steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, plunder, strip

abduct, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, blackmail, boodle, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry off, carry on, depredate, despoil, destroy, dough, filthy lucre, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gelt, go on, graft, greenbacks, gut, hammer, haul, hot goods, jack, kidnap, knock off, knock over, lay waste, lettuce, lift, lucre, maraud, maul, moolah, mug, perks, perquisite, pickings, pork barrel, prey on, prize, public till, public trough, rage, raid, ramp, rampage, ransack, rant, rape, rave, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, riot, roar, ruin, savage, seizure, shanghai, slaughter, sow chaos, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, spoliate, squeeze, stealings, stick up, stolen goods, storm, swag, sweep, tear, tear around, terrorize, throttle, till, vandalize, violate, wreck

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