What is the meaning of loot?

noun

• Goods or money obtained illegally.
  • synonyms: booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money
• Informal terms for money.
  • synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

verb

• Take illegally; of intellectual property.
  • usage: "This writer plundered from famous authors"
  • synonyms: plunder
• Steal goods; take as spoils.
  • usage: "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"
  • synonyms: plunder, despoil, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray