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looties

looties is the plural of lootie.

looties is the plural of looty.

Meaning of lootie

Noun

lootie (plural looties)

  1. (India, in plural) An irregular soldier whose main object was plunder; a marauder.
    • 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 […] .1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 93

Questions about looties

What is looties the plural of?
Looties is the plural of lootie.

Words near looties in the dictionary

  1. lootboxes
  2. looted
  3. looter
  4. looters
  5. lootie
  6. looties
  7. lootilities
  8. lootility
  9. lootin'
  10. looting
  11. lootings

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