Crossword clues for booty
booty
- Pirate's plunder
- Pirate's haul
- Pirate treasure
- Pirate's treasure
- Pirate's spoils
- Subject of many a rap song
- Pirate riches
- What was buried in "Treasure Island"
- Stuff in pirates' chests
- Spoil taken
- Spoil of war
- Plunder kin
- Pirate's quest
- Pirate's pelf
- Ill-gotten treasure
- "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your ___" (1976 #1 hit for KC and the Sunshine Band)
- "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your ___" (#1 hit from 1976)
- Pirates' plunder
- Pirate's prize
- Ill-gotten gains
- Spoils of war
- Corsair's quest
- Treasure on 27-/44-Across
- Rear of a disco?
- Goods or money obtained illegally
- Plundered treasure
- Swag
- Take
- Privateer's take
- Lafitte's prize
- Valuable stolen goods
- A bit like Balmoral's hot stuff?
- Prize for lad keeping books
- Stolen goods
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [Cf. Icel. b[=y]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte
barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute,
and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute,
exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by
boot profit.]
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,
especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
--Milton.
To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose;
to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in
order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him
afterwards. [Obs.]
--L'Estrange.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"plunder, gain, profit," mid-15c., from Old French butin "booty" (14c.), from a Germanic source akin to Middle Low German bute "exchange." Influenced in form and sense by boot (n.2) and in form by nouns ending in -y. Meaning "female body considered as a sex object" is 1920s, black slang.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context nautical English) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. 2 plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy. 3 (context figuratively English) Something that has been stolen or legally obtained from elsewhere. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context slang English) The buttocks, usually that of a female. 2 (context slang not countable English) A woman, considered as sexual partner or sex object. Etymology 3
n. (alternative spelling of bootee English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Booty may refer to:
Booty is a computer game released in 1984 for various home computers. The game was one of Firebird's launch titles.
"Booty" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez for her eighth studio album, A.K.A. (2014). It was written and produced by Cory Rooney, Lopez, and Benny Medina, with additional writing from Chris Brown, Asia Bryant, Pitbull, Diplo, Lewis D. Gittus, Tedra Renee Wilson, and Danny Omerhodic. "Booty" samples "Dat a Freak", a song by Diplo and Swick, and it features Lopez's frequent collaborator Pitbull. It was released as the third single from the album on September 23, 2014. Initially entitled "Big Booty", the song was first rejected by Lopez who did not like the idea of having a song with a title like that. However, after playing the demo for her kids, they enjoyed the track and Lopez was convinced to record the track.
"Booty" is a dance track, with middle eastern vibe, heavy percussion and Oriental keyboard riff, while its lyrics portrait Lopez inviting girls to the dancefloor to have a good time and dance, while shaking their buttocks. The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics, with many complimenting the song's fun nature, the dance environment and Pitbull's appearance, but a few dismissed its concept. Commercially, "Booty" performed moderately worldwide. It became a top twenty hit in the United States, charting at number eighteen on the US Billboard Hot 100, and entered the top forty in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, among other music markets.
"Booty" was first premiered during a listening party Lopez threw for critics, later she performed a snippet of the track during a concert and eventually premiered it full at an Orchard Beach concert. She has also performed "Booty" on Good Morning America and at Fashion Rocks. A one-minute teaser clip for the track was released on June 13, 2014, and it features Lopez and a group of women twerking. The teaser-video received high praise for its visuals and choreography, while Lopez was complimented by critics for looking rejuvenated and younger.
"Booty" was officially remixed with vocals from Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, replacing those of Pitbull. The remix received generally positive reviews from critics, who commended Azalea for adding an explosive verse to the song. The music video for the remix was shot in Los Angeles in late August, and was directed by Hype Williams. It premiered on September 18, 2014, and it shows Lopez and Azalea dancing in revealing swimming costumes, before being drenched with water. Lopez and Azalea performed "Booty" for the first time together on live television at the American Music Awards on November 23, 2014.
Usage examples of "booty".
Tarquin, thinking it advisable to pursue the enemy closely while in this consternation, after sending the booty and the prisoners to Rome, piling up and burning the spoils which he had vowed to Vulcan, proceeds to lead his army onward into the Sabine territory.
Larut, although aided by Captain Speedy and a force of well-drilled troops recruited by him in India, and possessing four Krupp guns, was powerless to restore order, and Larut was destroyed, being absolutely turned into a wilderness, in which all but three houses had been burned, and, while the Malays had fled, the surviving Si Kwans were living behind stockades, while those of the faction opposed to that with which the Mentri and his Commander-in-Chief, Captain Speedy, had allied themselves, were living on the products of orchards from which their owners had been driven, and on booty, won by a wholesale system of piracy and murder, practiced not only on the Perak waters but on the high seas.
Then their minds might turn to the quantity of booty de la Mery had accumulated and the way it was destined to be shared.
A few days later, George was buying some supplies at Iceman Feeds when a musher approached the counter and asked the clerk if he could have a little advice on booties.
Turning them right side out in advance of the race saves time for the musher, whose dogs will use eight hundred to twelve hundred booties in the course of a thousand-mile trail.
When a musher begins a rest cycle, he boils water, feeds his dogs, removes their booties, and checks each dog for injury or illness.
And so, upon a dark night near the head waters of the river he sought, he buried the treasure at the foot of a mighty buttress tree, and with his parang made certain cabalistic signs upon the bole whereby he might identify the spot when it was safe to return and disinter his booty.
And what damnable expressiveness Pickman sometimes gave the sightless faces of this charnel booty!
Constantine encountered a very obstinate resistance, he prevailed at length in the contest, and the Goths were compelled to purchase an ignominious retreat, by restoring the booty and prisoners which they had taken.
One strong company went to Cuba, where they sacked the Town of the Keys, and won a good booty.
Yet in secreting this booty, the saint incurred an excommunication, and perhaps broke his oath.
Napoleon, booty taken by the Slaughterman in one of his attacks on the French.
Since booties are made by a variety of outfitters and stitchers, many variations in design exist.
Bringing this booty back to Castle Tenebrose, he began once again his thwarted campaign to make himself the true Master of Tuzamen.
Augustine in 1683, and who had been a constant source of worriment to the Jamaicans because of his attacks on the fishing sloops, sailed to Boston and disposed of his booty of gold, silver, jewels and cocoa to the godly New England merchants, who were only too ready to take advantage of so profitable a trade and gladly fitted him out for another cruise.