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loot
has definitions from the field of criminal law
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[ noun ] goods or money obtained illegally
Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Furthermore - and this , to me , strikes an especially warming note - it shall avail the vandals naught to throw_away or dispose of their loot . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (criminal law) take illegally; of intellectual property
Synonyms Examples : "This writer plundered from famous authors" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)In his teens O_'_Banion was enrolled in the vicious Market_Street gang and he became a singing waiter in McGovern's_Cafe , a notoriously low and rowdy dive in North_Clark_Street , where befuddled customers were methodically looted of their money by the singing waiters before being thrown_out . |
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[ noun ] informal terms for money
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures , however , believing that any sum they come_up with is only a surface manifestation - turned_up by their inevitably limited policing - of the real loot of the medical racketeer . |
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