loot n.1
1. plunder, booty .
 | Ind. Vocab. in Stanford Dict. Anglicised Words 510: Loot, plunder, pillage. | |
| in Life of Lord Clive i 120: I did not take any loot – the Indian word for plunder — so that I have nothing of that kind, to which so many in this expedition helped themselves so bountifully. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | |
| Dilemma cap. 37: ‘Ah, sahib, these little stones are mere trifles,’ replied the ressaldar; ‘it was the colonel sahib who carried off the loot’. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Lady Kate, the Dashing Female Detective’ in et al. Old Sleuth’s Freaky Female Detectives (1990) 15/3: He had promised to divide his anticipated ‘loot’ with a common ‘knuck’. | |
| ‘The Imperial Institute’ Dagonet Ditties 131: You’ll guess if you’re only slightly cute / That there’ll always be plenty of room for ‘loot’ / In the noble Imperial Institute. | |
| Sporting Times 20 Jan. 5/4: I am going for loot, and if I kill a Boer and have a chance of going over him, you bet there won’t be much in his trow trows when I have done with him. | |
| ‘Larcenous Laura’ Sporting Times 12 Nov. 1/3: She had pockets full of loot, / Which she’s ‘lifted’ with her fingers deft and light. | |
| Clicking of Cuthbert 116: I don’t believe the Green Committee let the wretched caddies get any of the loot. | |
| ‘Goldfish’ in Red Wind (1946) 148: Then after fifteen long years they offered him a pardon, if he would loosen up with the loot. | |
| ‘A.V.G. Lingo’ in AS XXIII:1 31: Meanwhile numerous B.T.O.’s engaged in disposing of loot. | |
| Swell-Looking Babe 130: You didn’t have the loot stashed. | |
| Jeeves in the Offing 76: I suppose these kleptomaniacs know a thing or two and don’t hide the loot in the obvious place. | |
| Family Arsenal 92: She speculated on what they contained – burglar’s loot. | |
| Layer Cake 3: We’re making so much money [...] that we’re running outta places to plug the loot. |
2. money.
| ‘Houndsditch Day By Day’ in Sporting Times 18 Jan. 3/1: ’Ave ye seen Pontius Abryam’s new book vhat he’s jutht published? Ith called ‘A Guide for the Gonovim; or, the Location of the Loot’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Oct. 44/1: So I drew out what was left of my share of the loot and paid over £38. | |
| ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 39–40: The old-fashioned safe had been chiselled open and seven hundred dollars worth of loot had been abstracted. | |
| Chicago May (1929) 32: ‘Ho, Ho,’ thought I, ‘that’s what you want from me—after we spend the loot.’ Hooked up with me, he wouldn’t need to work. | |
| Really the Blues 84: He never allowed more than five or six parties [...] and they had to be packed up with loot. | |
| letter 21 June in Joint (1972) 21: I gave him the loot, twenty-five. | |
| Viper 8: I need the loot, man I need a cure. | |
| Mad mag. Sept. 44: My own car, servants, flashy wardrobe and plenty of loot. | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 18: What a ball we could’ve had with all that loot. | |
| Burn 65: All you need now is the mazuma, the dough, the lettuce, the gelt, the loot, the spondulicks. | |
| Life and Times of Little Richard 91: The incredible adulation Richard was receiving brought a ‘river of loot’ to be sure. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Trainspotting 286: Nuthin really, aboot a couple ay hundred quid [...] still, bags ay loot for a cat that age. | |
| Guardian Guide 5–11 Feb. 89: Enlisting a private dick to fake her death in order to get her psycho boyfriend [...] off her trail and away from her loot. | |
| This Is How You Lose Her 8: You’re wasting a whole lot of loot on some bullshit. | |
| Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] I had saved a small amount of loot. |
In derivatives
impoverished, out of funds.
| Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 46: [I]f you were lootless any time you fancied a smoke he’d always give you credit. |