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noun

booty

BOO-tee/ˈbuːti/

Valuables taken by theft or force.

The burglar puts stolen booty into a bag.

A burglar transfers jewelry from a smashed shop display into an open loot bag, with the stolen valuables prominent in the foreground.
Etymology
bootyOld Frenchbooty, plunder

Old French butin meant plunder, and the English word originally referred to goods taken from an enemy in war. The selected sense extends that idea to valuables seized in robbery.

In context

josh holmes0:14
the booty of an SS special unit that extorted more than 450 pounds of gold from tunisian jews in 1943
Field Marshal Erwin Rommels Lost Sunken Treasure (The Desert Fox Gold) (DOCUMENTARY)

More examples

  • The recovered booty included coins and jewelry.
  • The pirates hid their booty in a chest.
  • A bag of stolen booty lay beneath the bed.

Forms

booty

Similar words

loot
Goods stolen or taken by force.
plunder
Valuables seized, especially in war.