Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

Usage examples of looter.

If Aiken wanted the police to start arresting looters he was going to have to take responsibility for housing them.

Not the richest part, to be sure, but Holk and his men are not fussy looters.

If there was wide-scale looting traced to our regiment, if Colonel Murdock knew about it and wanted to find the looter, that would account for him not wanting to leave the line for any reason.

What you wish to do is drop the captured superbomb on the machines, and then fight the living Looters as we fought the Pethcines.

Maybe all this is useless pother, no looter coming, no danger closing in on me.

Within days the house was attacked by Roundhead looters, who were also busy breaking the stainedglass windows in the local churches, whereupon an enraged Mrs Judd had set about them with two kitchen knives, changing them for a billhook as soon as she could get to the potting shed.

The Sargasso looters were getting their hands on more wealth than they had ever imagined possible.

We have a rich Anasazi heritage here in Colorado, and damned if I want a bunch of profiteers and looters to be capitalizing on it.

This book is invaluable to anyone who fears that his home might be invaded, at any moment, by rioters, rapers, looters, dope addicts, niggers, Reds or any other group.

The keener-sighted of the Northerners began to suspect that Reconstruction in the South often amounted to little more than the looting of the governments of the Southern States by the greedy freedmen and the unscrupulous carpetbaggers, with the troops of the United States standing by to protect the looters.

As far as he could make out, they were still well inside the infected area, and until they escaped it, they were still at high risk from National Guardsmen, looters, panicking drivers, and the bacillus itself.

He paused momentarily to get his bearings, using his knife to fend off any looters who might want to spill more Sikh blood.

Nine of the dozen looters were at work on the task when there was a tumult back in the castle.

Hoddan ordered greater discrimination, but his pirates by this time were in the position of directors rather than looters themselves.

The treasure-seekers and the looters and ordinary citizens trying to stake claims to businesses and shops were going to be down that road like a nest of willy-wisps stirred with a stick.