booty — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

2. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

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   The soldier gets his booty ; the combatant his spoils ; the carnivorous animal his prey. Booty respects what is of personal service to the captor ; spoils whatever serves to designate his triumph ; prey includes whatever gratifies the appetite and is to be consumed.

   Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”

3. Something that has been stolen or illegally, mischievously, or greedily obtained from elsewhere.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Figurative
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   After returning from their Halloween trick-or-treating, the kids settled down to enjoy their booty of candies.

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   [H]e ſtood ſtill till ſhe came to him, and then, ſpreading his arms in her way, caught her, loaded as ſhe was with the pieces of candles, with which ſhe had filled the forepart of her ſhift; for ſhe had, in her haste, forgot to bring any thing to carry them off. […] If ſhe ſpoke to refuſe him, ſhe knew her voice would betray her, and ſhe ſhould be exposed for ever, at the same time that the fear of loſing her booty prevented her letting go her hold to ſtruggle with him, and ſtrive to repel force by force.

   Booty and prey are often used in an extended sense. Plunderers obtain a rich booty ; the diligent bee returns loaded with its booty.

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   “Aw yeah, I'm rich! So rich, I'll never have to work again. But you will. We'll come back every day 'til that snout of yours is worn to the bone.” “It doesn't have a bone. It's boneless.” “Well, worn to a stump then. Yeah, you know what I mean. Now come on! We need to haul this booty to the surface.”

Verb

1. To collect booty.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

Noun

1. The buttocks.

   Usage

   • Slang

   Examples

   You got a big ol' booty.

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   Aah, everybody, get on the floor / Let's dance / Don't fight the feeling / Give yourself a chance / Shake shake shake, shake shake shake / Shake your booty, shake your booty / Oh, shake shake shake, shake shake shake / Shake your booty, shake your booty

   After a triumphant performance at this year's American Music Awards, Toni [Braxton] walked offstage backward. "It was a see-through dress," explains Singletary. "She felt like her booty was her business." "I wear provocative clothes because they make me feel sexy," Toni says without apology. "If an artist like Madonna is wearing her booty hanging out, she's considered a genius. But if a black person does it, we're considered skank whores or sluts."

   She didn't like it when he touched her and indicated her clitoral area and buttocks. […] Patty also commented that her daddy has played with her vagina and put toys in [her] booty. […] Her father made her touch his private stuff, "his penis and booty." […] In her sleep when Mrs. Porter was babysitting, Patty was observed to pull down her diaper and manipulate her clitoris and try to insert her finger into her "booty".

   She hadn't even looked pregnant, especially with her clothes on. She'd gotten only one stretch mark. A thin, jagged line on her left booty cheek.

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   When she turned her back to the mirror, the spandex in the material clung tightly to her booty. Ugh. She was even calling her derriere a "booty," because that's what her eight-year-old, cartoon-watching nephew called it. Whatever the name for her overcurvaceous backside, it was the bane of her existence. She simply sat too much. Even the two ballet classes a week she took at work, in the hospital exercise studio, did not help. If anything, they made her "booty" even "bootier".

2. A person considered as a sexual partner or sex object.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Uncountable
   • Vulgar

   Synonyms

   piece of ass

   Examples

   You know me. It's my duty to please that booty!

3. Sexual intercourse.

   Usage

   • Slang
   • Vulgar

   Examples

   "I got some booty, I got some booty"

Adjective

1. Of low quality; bad.

   Usage

   • not-comparable
   • Slang
   • Vulgar

Noun

1. goods or money obtained illegally

   Synonyms

   lootpillageplunderprizeswagdirty money

   Broader terms

   stolen property