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loot

noun
/luːt/UK/lut/CA/ɫʉːt/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *kleh₂-✻
  2. derived from *hlōþþijō✻ — “scoop”
  3. derived from *lōtija✻ — “scoop”
  4. derived from *lōta✻
  5. borrowed from loet

Definitions

  1. Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical)…

    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.

    • Loot, plunder, pillage.
    • He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.
    • Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

  2. Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.

    • He consented to the loot of the city by the men under his command.

  3. Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.

    • Free Loot for Children
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Synonym of money.

      • I got my mink the hard way. I paid for it. It cost a lot of loot and it took a little while to do it, but it's all mine.
      • There was nothing to do except for Mom to go back slaving away as somebody's maid. In Baltimore she couldn't make half the loot she could up North.
      • How about all of those guys, dolls, dancers, fancy orchestration, and special lyrics? Didn't all of that cost a lot of loot? A good question. Would you believe me if I told you that we bought all of that talent for less than $10,000?

    2. Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during…

      Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.

      • We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.
      • Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder
      • The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

    3. Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.

      • He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’

    4. A scoop used to remove scum from brine pans in saltworks.

    5. Clipping of lieutenant.

      • R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loot. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01loot02plundering03plunders04plunder05sack06pillaging07pillage

A definitional loop anchored at loot. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loot

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA