looter
looter[ noun ]
someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
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Looter \Loot"er\ (l[=oo]t"[~e]r), n.
A plunderer.
- A U.S. officer in charge of security dismissed it as a minor incident. "Only some shopkeeper firing shots into the air to scare away a looter," the officer told a reporter.
- In a building next to Mr Najibullah's quarters, Hazara militiament strolled about, collecting booty in sacks. Ethnic Tadjiks at the front door checked the sacks and forced their looter allies to leave most of the booty.
- Her son, passing by, came upon the looter and shot it.
- The Jan. 16 shooting in the predominantly black neighborhood of Overtown triggered three days of rioting that left one looter shot dead, 11 people injured by gunfire and 13 buildings burned down.
- The disturbances left one looter shot to death, 11 people injured by gunfire and 13 buildings burned down.