(n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The woman across the street from me bought an entire Burberry outfit for her dog, from coat to booties to hat.
(2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
(3) The pay-per-view take-up is also expected to delight the promoters, Golden Boy Promotions and Mayweather Promotions, and the TV cheque-signers, Showtime, when they sit down to count the booty.
(4) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
(5) But what if “booty” were a metaphor for the free ownership of handguns?
(6) Whatever it takes – hints of preferment or threats – they may lose their booty.
(7) It was only supposed to be a fleeting visit – cheeky blow dry at Booty's, cop a bacon bap, and then straight to Ibiza with Roxy to forget all about that baby-snatching shit, just like the scriptwriters dearly wish they could.
(8) Business owners who spoke on condition of anonymity accused officers of treating the city as booty.
(9) I designed most of the dress, the booties and the hat.
(10) It seems only right that some of the trust fund to be established from Habré’s stolen booty, together with other contributions, should be spent on providing survivors with the clinical and mental health services provided by Freedom from Torture, to help heal their wounds.
(11) Instead, she found Kat waiting at the prison gates, Roxy shacked up with Alfie, and Booty's replaced with Beauty's.
(12) It seems that Senicianus only got as far as Silchester before he lost his booty.
(13) Becoming a grandfather for the second time, following the birth of Princess Charlotte on 2 May, saw Prince Charles showered with baby booties, wooden rattles, baby blankets, vests, hats and even two giant lollipops.
(14) The company, which is known for its trademark trenchcoats but also sells £14,000 alligator bowling bags and £95 babies’ booties, warned that sales growth is slowing in Asia with are “pockets of weakness in Europe”.
(15) The suspicion is that at least some of Morgan's booty winds up 280 miles south-west of Epulu, in the hands of the Congolese army.
(16) This autumn is full of booty songs – yours, Nikki Minaj’s Anaconda and Jennifer Lopez’s Booty.
(17) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
(18) Jonathan Jones has rightly argued that British museums must “face up to reality” and that “cultural imperialism” belongs in history’s dustbin, but clearly his passionate plea fell on deaf ears ( The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back , 4 November).
(19) Win it and this Arsenal team will at last graduate from pretenders to victors, cast off the reputation as bottlers and seem well primed to use their post-Emirates-building booty money to add judicious reinforcements and embark on a new period of glory for the Gunners and ultimate vindication for Wenger.
(20) Your job is to loot galactic booty (so to speak) in your spaceship, crafting weapons and upgrades to keep your fleet in shape, and plotting your space-battle strategy.
Loot
Definition:
(n.) The act of plundering.
(n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
(v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
(5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
(6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
(7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
(8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
(9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
(10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
(12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
(13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
(17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
(18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
(19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
(20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.