Definition of Loot

Noun: loot loot

Goods or money obtained illegally
"It will avail them to dispose of their loot";
- booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
Informal term for money
- boodle, bread, cabbage [US], clams [US], dinero [N. Amer], dough, gelt, kale [US], lettuce [US], lolly [Brit], lucre, moolah [N. Amer], pelf [archaic], scratch, shekels, simoleons [US], sugar, wampum [N. Amer], wonga [Brit], brass [Brit], moola [N. Amer], mazuma [US], dosh [Brit]

Verb: loot loot

(crime) take illegally; of intellectual property
"This writer looted from famous authors";
- plunder
Steal goods; take as spoils
"During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners";
- plunder, despoil, reave [archaic], strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray