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Definition loot

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loet, loete ("scoop, shovel, scraper"; > Modern Dutch loet), from Old Dutch *l?ta, from Old Frankish *l?tija (�scoop, ladle�), from Proto-Germanic *hl?��ij? (�ladle�), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh?- (�to lay down, deposit, overlay�). Cognate with Scots lute, luyt (�scoop, ladle�), West Frisian loete, lete, Middle Low German l?te (�rake�), French louche ("ladle"; < Germanic). Related to lade, ladle.

Noun

loot (plural loots)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.

Etymology 2

Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani ??? (l??)/???‎ (l??, �spoil, booty�), from Sanskrit ?????? (lu??, �to rob, plunder�). The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian".

In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare.

A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

Noun

loot (uncountable)

1. The act of plundering.
2. plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
3. (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
4. (video games) Items dropped by defeated enemies.

Verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

1. To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
2. To steal from.
3. (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

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