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Definition of Booty
1. Noun. Goods or money obtained illegally.
Generic synonyms: Stolen Property
Terms within: Cut
Derivative terms: Loot, Pillage, Plunder, Plunder, Plunder
Definition of Booty
1. n. That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
Definition of Booty
1. Noun. (nautical) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once. ¹
2. Noun. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy. ¹
3. Noun. (slang) The buttocks, usually that of a female. ¹
4. Noun. (slang not countable) A woman, considered as sexual partner or sex object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Booty
1. a rich gain or prize [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Booty
Literary usage of Booty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"booty and prize. § 359b. Prize and booty belong primarily to the sovereign.
Property of the enemy taken on land is usually called booty, while that captured ..."
2. The Law of Nations Considered as Independent Political Communities by Sir Travers Twiss (1875)
"With regard to enemy's property captured booty and on land, ... Courts of Admiralty
accordingly take no cognisance of questions of booty. ..."
3. The Elements of International Law: With an Account of Its Origin, Sources by George Breckenridge Davis, Gordon Edward Sherman (1915)
"Captured Property on Land; booty. Public property on land, ... Such captured
property is called booty. It consists of all public property that is ..."
4. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Sir Edward Hertslet (1875)
"DECLARATION exchanged between Great Britain and France, relative to tlic Division
of Trophies and booty. Signed at Paris, Wth July, 1855. TABLE. ..."
5. International Law; Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States in Peace by Henry Wager Halleck (1861)
"As no action can be maintained in an English court of municipal law with respect
to booty, and as courts of admiralty have no jurisdiction of the matter, ..."
6. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"1C4. conquests, all movable property taken from him comes under booty.(U5) the
denomination of booty. This booty naturally belongs to the sovereign making ..."
7. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"booty. Borrowed from tlie Scandinavian word buty (latinized into ... booty is
analogous to the Anglo-Saxon bot, and appears now as the English word booty. ..."
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