loot
money (slang)
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Nigeria tracks Abacha's loot -- Nigeria has asked Liechtenstein for help in recovering part of the £3bn it believes was embezzled by the late dictator Sani Abacha, and hidden in the principality."
(BBC News - 12 August 2000)
(BBC News - 12 August 2000)
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loot
This short but interesting word is of Hindi origin - from Sanskrit loptram, lotram = plunder
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition gives 5 related definitions:
1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
2. Stolen goods.
3. Informal. Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
4. Informal. Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
5. Slang. Money.
NOTE:
We seem to like stolen money in English as there are quite a few idioms:
boodle, booty, dough, graft, haul, hot goods, hot items, lift, make, moolah, pickings, pillage, plunder, plunderage, prize, seizure, spoils, squeeze, swag, take
This short but interesting word is of Hindi origin - from Sanskrit loptram, lotram = plunder
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition gives 5 related definitions:
1. Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
2. Stolen goods.
3. Informal. Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
4. Informal. Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
5. Slang. Money.
NOTE:
We seem to like stolen money in English as there are quite a few idioms:
boodle, booty, dough, graft, haul, hot goods, hot items, lift, make, moolah, pickings, pillage, plunder, plunderage, prize, seizure, spoils, squeeze, swag, take
