What is "loot"

Loot \Loot\ (l[=oo]t), n. [Hind. l[=u][.t], Skr. l[=o]tra, l[=o]ptra, booty, lup to break, spoil; prob. akin to E. rob.]

1. The act of plundering.

2. Plunder; booty; especially, the booty taken in a conquered or sacked city.

3. Hence: Anything stolen or obtained by dishonesty.

4. Broadly: Valuable objects; as, the child was delighted with all the loot he got for his birthday.

5. Money; as, you shouldn't carry all that loot around with you in the city; she made a pile of loot from trading in cattle futures. [slang]

Loot \Loot\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Looted; p. pr. & vb. n. Looting.] To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

Looting parties . . . ransacking the houses.
--L. Oliphant.

"goods taken from an enemy, etc.," 1788, Anglo-Indian, from Hindi lut, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram "booty, stolen property," from PIE *roup-tro-, from root *reup- "to snatch" (see rip (v.)). The verb is first attested 1821, from the noun. Related: Looted; looting.

Etymology 1 alt. (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks. n. (context UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks. Etymology 2

n. 1 The act of plundering. 2 plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city. 3 (context colloquial US English) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents 4 (context video games English) Items dropped from defeated enemies in video games and online games. vb. 1 to steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence. 2 (context video games English) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.

1. n. goods or money obtained illegally [syn: booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]

2. informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]

3. v. take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: plunder]

4. steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]

Loot may refer to:

• Loot (play), a 1965 play by Joe Orton
• Loot (1970 film), a British film of the Joe Orton play, directed by Silvio Narizzano
• Loot (2008 film), a 2008 documentary film
• Loot (2011 film), an Indian film
• Loot (2012 film), a Nepali film
• Loot (novel), a novel by Aaron Elkins
• Loot (magazine), a British classified ads magazine
• Loot Interactive, a video game developer
• Lesbian Organization of Toronto (L.O.O.T.)

Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force.

Loot was Orton's third major production, following Entertaining Mr Sloane and the television play The Good and Faithful Servant. Playing with the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a hectic world and examines English attitudes and perceptions in the mid twentieth century. The play won several awards in its London run and has had many revivals.

Loot is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Silvio Narizzano which is based on the play of the same name by Joe Orton. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.

Loot is a 2008 documentary film. It follows amateur treasure hunter Lance Larson in search of buried treasure from World War II, with the help of the two US war veterans—Darrel Ross and Andrew Seventy—responsible for burying them. A major theme of the film involves the emotional risks of digging up one's past.

The film premiered on HBO2 on May 20, 2009. It won Best Documentary at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival.

Loot is a 2011 Bollywood comedy film directed by Rajnish Thakur, starring Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Mahakshay Chakraborty, Javed Jaffrey, Shweta Bhardwaj and Ravi Kissen in lead roles. It released on 4 November 2011, to mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial failure. The film is a loose remake of the 2003 film, Crime Spree.

Loot is one of the United Kingdom's leading free classified advertising publishers, distributing its products via print, internet, interactive television and Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

Loot was founded in 1984 when David Landau, an Oxford don and an art historian, picked up a magazine titled Secondamano ("second-hand") in a Milan airport, believing it to be an antiques magazine. Finding out it was a free classifieds magazine instead, he was intrigued by the concept and discovered that no similar publication existed in the UK at that time. Together with his sister Elizabeth (who came up with the name Loot for the new venture) and her husband Dominic Gill, then music critic for the Financial Times, the trio raised the money to launch their first publication, the London edition of LOOT: London's Noticeboard, in 1985.

The paper was launched in March 1985 on paper the same colour as the Financial Times (i.e. pale pink or salmon), as a means "to buy, sell or exchange absolutely anything", and published every Thursday containing only 16 pages of ads in the first edition, but soon increasing the number of pages. Ads were limited to "50 words" (349 characters), but this was later cut to "30 words". The magazine used the slogan LOOT stands for "Look Out On Thursdays", but later started publishing a Monday edition printed on yellow paper. During the early days, LOOT's policy was to have a forum called the Personal Messages column 100 on the front page, continuing on page 2, which was nothing to do with selling and contained messages from people who started to use various pen names or "LOOT names" (e.g. IWETEC standing for I Will Escape To the European Continent, Dirty Harry, Guitarman, Tiger, Sunshine, Harlequin, Lambkins, and Michelin Man), but after several months this moved to column 900 near the back, along with other personal or social categories, such as Announcements, Campaign/Lobby, and Lonely Hearts. The first "LOOT Night Out" (LNO) was held in September 1985 at a venue in northwest London called "The Production Village" for advertisers in the Personal Messages column to meet each other and some of the staff. This was followed up by a few larger scale "LOOT Nights Out", organised by the magazine themselves, attended by a larger cross section of LOOT readers, then continued with smaller scale events organised by the advertisers in the Personal Messages column. LOOT started publishing three weekly editions, then increased to five weekly editions, each on a different colour paper, including light green and the more common off white like most newspapers. In 1988, Loot started a Manchester edition, which was followed by other regional editions. At one point, Loot's free-ads publication was published in 20 editions per week across the UK (including county based editions such as Essex and Kent) with a weekly circulation of approximately 180,000 copies. As of February 2012, Loot is published thrice weekly in London and Manchester and weekly in Liverpool; two specialist papers, Loot Recruit and Jobs Week are also published weekly in the London area, and Bargain Pages in the West Midlands. Its website, Loot.com, generates approximately 24 million monthly page impressions and had 557,000 unique users, based on a March 2009 ABC audit.

Loot was bought in June 2000 by Scoot.com but the company was forced to sell the publication at a heavy loss just 14 months later to Daily Mail and General Trust and Loot became a division of Associated New Ventures, featuring private and business advertisements in over 600 classifications. In 2010 it was bought from DMGT by Printing Investments Ltd, reuniting the publication with Buy&Sell, an Irish classifieds magazine previously owned by Loot.

Loot is a 2012 Nepali crime action film written and directed by Nischal Basnet. It stars young emerging actors from Nepal's film industry: Saugat Malla, Karma Shakya, Dayahang Rai, Prateek Raj Neupane, Sushil Raj Pandey, Reecha Sharma, Srijana Subba, Praween Khatiwada and Sushma Karki. The film revolves around contemporary Kathmandu, Nepal where five ordinary guys try to find quick ways to get rich. The movie is about a character named Haku Kale ( Saugat Malla) who, along with four others, plots to rob a bank in Kathmandu.

Loot features a soundtrack comprising mostly modern music. " Udhreko Choli" has become popular among young Nepalese. Nischal Basnet gave voice to the male part in the item song and Indira Joshi sang the female part.