loot

n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {booty}, {pillage},

{plunder}, {prize}, {swag}]

2: informal terms for money [syn: {shekels}, {gelt}, {dough}, {bread},

{dinero}, {lucre}, {pelf}, {moolah}, {cabbage}, {kale}]

v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property: "This writer

plundered from famous authors" [syn: {plunder}]

2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people

looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

[syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {reave}, {strip}, {rifle}, {ransack},

{pillage}, {foray}]

boot

(from "{bootstrap}" or "to pull oneself up

by one's bootstraps") To load and initialise the {operating

system} on a computer.

See {reboot}, {cold boot}, {warm boot}, {soft boot}, {hard

boot}, {bootstrap}, {bootstrap loader}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-11-27)