1. Goods or money obtained illegally
   "The pirates divided up their loot";
   - booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag [informal], dirty money [informal]
    
2. [informal] The most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
   "we tried to collect the loot he owed us";
   - money, coin [US, informal], boodle [informal], bread [informal], cabbage [US, informal], clams [US, informal], dinero [N. Amer, informal], dough [informal], gelt [informal], kale [US, informal], lettuce [US, informal], lolly [Brit, informal], lucre [informal], moolah [N. Amer, informal], pelf [archaic, informal], scratch [informal], shekels [informal], simoleons [US, informal], sugar [informal], wampum [N. Amer, informal], wonga [Brit, informal], moola [N. Amer, informal], brass [Brit, informal], dibs [archaic, informal], spondulix [Brit, informal], spondulicks [Brit, informal], mazuma [US, informal], dosh [Brit, informal]
    
3. (gaming) items, currency, or rewards obtained in a video game, especially those dropped by defeated enemies or found in treasure chests
   "The boss dropped some rare loot after we defeated it"

1. 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
    
2. Take illegally; of intellectual property
   "This writer looted from famous authors";
   - plunder

Sounds like: loops, louloot

Derived forms: looting, loots, looted

Type of: medium of exchange, monetary system, rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal, stolen property, take

Part of: money supply

Encyclopedia: Loot