looter Definition

loot
verb looted, looting

intr
1a. Said especially of a mob: to steal from shops, warehouses, etc, often with attendant vandalism or violence during or following rioting;

Thesaurus: ransack, raid, burglarize, rob.
intr
1b. To steal from an enemy in wartime.

Thesaurus: ransack, pillage, plunder, maraud, raid, despoil, ravage.
2. colloq
To steal from someone or something.
Example: looted his son's piggy-bank

noun

1a. Money, goods or supplies stolen from shops, warehouses, etc, especially when taken during or following rioting;
1b. Money or goods stolen from an enemy in wartime.

Thesaurus: booty, spoils.
2. An act of looting.
3. slang
Money.

Derivative: looter
noun

Etymology: 18c: from Hindi lut.