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BOOTY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods or money obtained illegally

Synonyms:

booty; dirty money; loot; pillage; plunder; prize; swag

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("booty" is a kind of...):

stolen property (property that has been stolen)

Meronyms (parts of "booty"):

cut (a share of the profits)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Burdened with the guilty consciousness of the sequestered tarts, and fearing that Dodo's sharp eyes would pierce the thin disguise of cambric and merino which hid their booty, the little sinners attached themselves to 'Dranpa', who hadn't his spectacles on.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)