Booty

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːti

From Old French butin ("booty")

Full definition of booty

Noun

1. (nautical) A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
2. Plunder taken from an enemy in time of war, or seized by piracy.
• 2012, April 26, Tasha Robinson, Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :, 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.”

Related terms

• boodle

Coordinate terms

• loot

From butt

Noun

1. (slang) The buttocks, usually that of a female.You got a big ol' booty.
2. (slang, not countable) A woman, considered as sexual partner or sex object.
• 2000, Shaft (2000 film) (film)It’s my duty to please that booty.

Derived terms

• booty call
• bootylicious