Lootie
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lootie is a noun meaning (India, chiefly in the plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
Meaning
(India, chiefly in the plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
Example Sentences
Hyder Ali's stragglers, or looties as they were called, committed such repeated depradations upon all the European habitations, even to the edge of the works of the fort, that the proprietors removed everything valuable […] .
Word Forms
- looties
- looty
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include looty, looter, marauder, plunderess, piller, lootocrat.
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