Meaning & use
booty
Valuable goods or treasure taken by force, especially by pirates, soldiers, or thieves.
See it in a sentence
The pirates buried their booty on a remote island to keep it hidden.
Archaeologists found what may have been Viking booty hidden beneath the church floor.
A note on using this word
Booty specifically implies goods seized through raiding or conquest, unlike treasure, which can simply mean valuable items.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An informal term for a person's buttocks.
The dance class ended with a fun song about shaking your booty.
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