BOOTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does booty mean? 

• BOOTY (noun)
  The noun BOOTY has 1 sense:

1. goods or money obtained illegally

  Familiarity information: BOOTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOOTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goods or money obtained illegally

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

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

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

stolen property (property that has been stolen)

Meronyms (parts of "booty"):

cut (a share of the profits)

 Context examples 

Oh, we see through you, John Silver; you want to play booty, that's what's wrong with you.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The children, full of pity, at once took tight hold of the little man, and pulled against the eagle so long that at last he let his booty go.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We must bear in mind that Oberstein has gone to the Continent to dispose of his booty, but not with any idea of flight; for he had no reason to fear a warrant, and the idea of an amateur domiciliary visit would certainly never occur to him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Know, base-born knave, that you have dared this day to stand in the path of one whose race have been the advisers of kings and the leaders of hosts, ere ever this vile crew of Norman robbers came into the land, or such half-blood hounds as you were let loose to preach that the thief should have his booty and the honest man should sin if he strove to win back his own.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the 'up again and take another' spirit was as strong in Jo as in Jack, so she scrambled up on the shady side this time and got more booty, but nearly left behind her what was far more precious than the moneybags.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He made his way to Woking by the first train, and having examined his booty and assured himself that it really was of immense value, he had concealed it in what he thought was a very safe place, with the intention of taking it out again in a day or two, and carrying it to the French embassy, or wherever he thought that a long price was to be had.

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

Threading this chaos, I at last reached the larder; there I took possession of a cold chicken, a roll of bread, some tarts, a plate or two and a knife and fork: with this booty I made a hasty retreat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had not flown far, however, when he came across a dog who, having met the sausage, had regarded him as his legitimate booty, and so seized and swallowed him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The archers had spread themselves over the ruins, but a blast upon a bugle brought them all back to muster, with such booty as they could bear with them stuffed into their pouches or slung over their shoulders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some of the man's money—if he had any—was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)