Definition of "loot"

Loot, plunder, pillage.

1788, Indian Vocabulary, page 77

He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.

1839, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, page 104

Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340

The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.

1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505

India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22

Free Loot for Children

1956 April 23, Life Magazine, p. 131

Loot, Scottish slang for money received on pay day.

1943, John Leslie Hunt et al., Service Slang, page 44

There was nothing to do except for Mom to go back slaving away as somebody's maid. In Baltimore she couldn't make half the loot she could up North.

1956, Billie Holiday et al., Lady Sings the Blues, page 26

Movies and TV were […] continuing to pretend for many years that the contents of a single briefcase could purchase a small country. Lately, though, filmmakers have made some sincere efforts to be realistic about the sheer bulk of pilfered loot)

2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck Blunder through a Heavy Heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club‎

Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder

1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66

The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

1842 May 17, Lord Ellenborough, letter

On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.

1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎, volume 4, number 16, page 483

He told me... that if I gave him less than to the master of the luggage-boat, he would... declare at Shēr-Gurry that I had ‘looted him!’

1851 June 20, Mrs. Hervey, journal

R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station.

1898, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace & War, page 11