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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOOT'Y, n.
1. Spoil taken from an enemy in war; plunder; pillage.
2. That which is seized by violence and robbery.
To play booty is to play dishonestly with an intent to lose.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural booties) Etymology: modification of Middle French butin, from Middle Low German b?te exchange Date: 15th century 1. plunder taken (as in war); especially plunder taken on land as distinguished from prizes taken at sea 2. a rich gain or prize Synonyms: see spoil II. noun also bootie (plural booties) Etymology: alteration of an English-based creole word, ultimately from Early Modern English *bottie buttocks, perhaps from ¹bottom + -ie Date: 1928 slang buttocks

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 plunder gained esp. in war or by piracy. 2 colloq. something gained or won. Etymology: ME f. MLG bute, buite exchange, of uncert. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Booty Boo"ty, n. [Cf. Icel. b?ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute, and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute, exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by boot profit.] That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. --Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Booty is a collection of valuable things stolen from a place, especially by soldiers after a battle. Troops destroyed the capital and confiscated many works of art as war booty. = spoils

Easton's Bible Dictionary

captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan all that breathed were to be destroyed (Deut. 20: 16). The "pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed also (Num. 33:52). The law of booty as to its division is laid down in Num. 31:26-47. David afterwards introduced a regulation that the baggage-guard should share the booty equally with the soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war for the temple (1 Sam. 30:24-26; 2 Sam. 8:11; 1 Chr. 26:27).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

boot'-i (baz and baz): "Booty" is the translation of baz or baz, usually rendered "prey" and "spoil" (Jer 49:32); of malqoach, "prey," "booty" (Nu 31:32, "the booty--the rest of the prey," the Revised Version (British and American) "the prey, over and above the booty," baz); of meshiccah, "spoil" (Hab 2:7; Ze 1:13; the Revised Version (British and American) "spoil"); of opheleia, "gain" (2 Macc 8:20). "Booty respects what is of personal service to the captor; spoils whatever serves to designate his triumph; prey includes whatever gratifies the appetite and is to be consumed" (Crabb, English Synonymes). Persons (for slaves, etc.) might be part of the booty. See also SPOIL.

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage. See prey.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To play booty; cheating play, where the player purposely avoids winning.

Moby Thesaurus

bag, blackmail, boodle, capture, catch, contraband, gain, graft, haul, hot goods, loot, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder, pork barrel, prize, public till, public trough, seizure, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, swag, take, takings, till