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▪ I. loot, n.1|luːt|
Also 7 lute.
[See lute n.3]
A name applied in the Cheshire and Staffordshire salt-works to the ladle used to remove the scum from the brine-pan.
1669W. Jackson in Phil. Trans. IV. 1065 This bloudy brine at the first boyling of the Pann, brings up a scumm, which they are careful to take off with a Skimmer, made with a woodden handle thrust through a long square of Wainscot-board, twice as bigg as a good square trencher: this they call a Loot. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 94. 1880 C. H. Poole Staffordsh. Gloss., Loot, a brine ladle.
▪ II. loot, n.2|luːt|
[a. Hindī lūt, according to some scholars repr. Skr. lōtra, lōptra booty, spoil, f. the root lup = rup to break; others refer it to Skr. lunt to rob.]
1. Goods (esp. articles of considerable value) taken from an enemy, a captured city, etc. in time of war; also, in wider sense, something taken by force or with violence; booty, plunder, spoil; now sometimes transf., illicit gains, ‘pillage’ (e.g. by a public servant). Also, the action or process of looting.
[1788Indian Vocab. (Y.), Loot, plunder, pillage.] 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 104 He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India. 1858–9Russell Diary India (1860) II. xvii. 340 Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery. 1860Hook Lives Abps. (1862) II. vii. 505 The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot. 1876Blackw. Mag. CXIX. 115/1 Public servants [in Turkey] have vied with one another in a system of universal loot.
2. slang. Money.
1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 44 Loot, Scottish slang for money received on pay day. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) ii. 16 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. 1959Encounter Oct. 73/1 MacInnes's teen-agers..are all economically self-supporting, in their own phrase, they've got the loot. 1968J. Sangster Touchfeather xiii. 141 When you've got his sort of loot I don't suppose it matters. 1973Center City Office Weekly (Philadelphia) 9 Oct. 3 Jefferson Medical College picks up $362,949 in loot for..continuing research in hemophilia.
▪ III. loot, n.3 U.S. Mil. slang.|luːt|
Shortened from Amer. pronunciation of lieutenant 2.
1898F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War 11 R-run over an' wake up th' loot at th' station. 1918Stars & Stripes 27 Dec. 7 He's a loot-colonel now and a D.S.C. 1921B. Matthews in S.P.E. Tract v. 6 In the United States this officer is called the lootenant, which the privates of the American Expeditionary Force in France habitually shortened to ‘loot’. 1944K. Levis in Murdoch & Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 423 Some nitwit of a loot's in charge that don't know a bush track from Pitt Street. 1948J. G. Cozzens Guard of Honor 331 Don't thank the loot!
▪ IV. loot, v.|luːt|
[f. loot n.2]
a. trans. To plunder, sack (a city, building).
b. To carry off as loot or booty.
c. absol.
a.1845W. H. Smith in Colburn's United Service Mag. ii. 10 He has attacked and looted several villages under our protection. 1861Gresley Sophron & N. 135 The summer palace of the Emperor..has been..unceremoniously looted. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars ii. 99 A gang of fellows..seems to have looted the manors of Dunton and Mileham.
b.1847Ld. Malmesbury in Mem. Ex-minister (1884) I. 192 Went to see Marshal Soult's pictures which he looted in Spain. 1858K. Young Diary (1902) App. D. 328 My Sirdar-bearer who..looted all my traps. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xiv, A place of temporary security for the plunder ‘looted’ by laundresses [sc. of Inns of Court chambers]. 1887Daily News 18 July 5/4 The dervishes are reported to be looting cattle and grain.
c.1842[implied in looting vbl. n.]. 1859Times 30 May 10/4 He who ‘loots’ is almost sure to make acquaintance with the ‘haslinger’. 1878R. Tayler in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 243 The gentle ‘Tigers’ [soldiers] were looting right merrily, diving in and out of wagons with the activity of rabbits in a warren.
Hence ˈlooted ppl. a.
1897Daily News 24 Mar. 7/6 All the looted cattle and women were recaptured.
▪ V. loot
var. lote lotus, loth; obs. Sc. f. lout.
▪ VI. loot
Sc. pa. tense of let v.1 |